Linda Steer

I was surprised by this!

I haven’t seen it in a long time, but it’s a favourite of mine too.

I’m seeing the same with mine. They are so engaged with art history! It’s an online class and a significant portion of the group participates in every class. They do the readings. They ask thoughtful questions. Definitely hopeful.

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:

'There's no need to test'.

Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.

😹

Opinion: The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent We still aren’t doing enough to mitigate the spread of the virus

“We need better air quality in our public spaces,” Vipond said. “We need to be treating our air they way we treat our water, not just because of COVID but to prepare for the next airborne pandemic.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Same here.

A favourite of mine!

A photo of a yellow book cover with the words “Teaching to Transgress. Education as the practice of Freedom” in red font above “bell hooks” in black font.

This week’s reading.

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

Happy back-to-school to all who celebrate!

Yep! Our history of art and visual culture grads are doing well.

Sounds like a good summer read!

Life in the attention economy…

Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.

Ugh. Week’s!! When is that edit button coming?

A photograph of a green book cover with the title “The Parameters of our Cage.” The green photograph depicts a pond with lily pads framed by trees and shrubs.

This weeks reading: a fascinating little book of letters between C. Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth about photography, poetry, incarceration, imagination, contemporary culture and politics, friendship and more.

I find this fascinating / terrifying.

So, what’s everyone reading this summer? Any suggestions? I’m looking for good novels.

I made pesto without pine nuts yesterday. Not by desire, but by default (burnt the pine nuts while toasting them).

The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?

This.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.

Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific A retrospective of the Duch Golden Age painter has been organized by the Toledo Museum of Art, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the MFA Boston.

Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific
By Kelly Presutti for Art in America

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Amazing!

How beautiful!

If I won the lottery, I’d open a free university!