The Story Of Crass by George Berger
The Western Canon: The Books & Schools Of The Ages by Harold Bloom
The Stiehl Assassin by Terry Brooks
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Circcariello-Maher
A Penelopean Politics: Reweaving The Feminine In Homer's Odyssey by Barbara Clayton
Atari To Zelda: Japan's Video Games In Global Contexts by Mia Consalvo
The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return by Patrick J. Deneen
Titan Screwed: Lost Smiles, Stunners, and Screwjobs by James Dixon
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger Ebert
K-Punk: The Collected & Unpublished Writing Of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher
Transformers: Regeneration One Volumes 1-4 by Simon Furman
Soccer In Sun & Shadows by Eduardo Galeano
Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repoository by Matt Groening
GI Joe Volumes 1-33 by Larry Hama
My Hero Academia Volume 1-3 by Kohei Horikoshi
Death Of The Territories: Expansion, Betrayal, and The War That Changed Pro Wrestling Forever by Tim Hornbaker
The New Testament As Literature by Kyle Keefer
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football In Europe During The Second World War by Simon Kuper
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume One by Stan Lee
Kill Shakespeare Volume One by Conor McCreery
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
One Piece Volume One by Eiichiro Oda
Mega Man 3 (Boss Fights) by Salvatore Pane
Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise & Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages by Curtis Perry
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Where We Go From Here by Bernie Sanders
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
Essays by Wallace Shawn
Night Thoughts by Wallace Shawn
1923: A Great Depression Memoir by Harry Leslie Smith
Harry's Last Stand: How The World My Generation Built Is Falling Down and What We Can Do To Save It by Harry Leslie Smith
Love Among The Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1943 by Harry Leslie Smith
Strike For America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity by Micah Uetricht
The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds In Homer's Odyssey by Thomas Van Nortwick
Never Any End In Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner
A Politics of Love: A Handbook For A New American Revolution by Marianne Williamson
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genuis of Dutch Soccer by David Winner
#RThink
Last summer, I was thrilled to be asked to return to Stockton for the #RThink (Rethinking Thoughts) conference. The afternoon was spent among old friends and some very interesting and eager students. The Literature program at Stockton is in great hands.
Here are my notes from the day:
Twitter hashtag=#rthink
Creating a New Media certificate
Students would create a portfolio that could be shown to employers/schools/etc
New Media assignments should be memorable
Allowing students to make up their project (see Kinsella senior seminar in the spring) gives students agency over their work and which projects they worked on)
I allow my students to have a say over their paper topics. We brew them in class during discussions. This gives them ownership over their writing.
I also mentioned the “Peer Review Speed Dating” that I do
Giving students options for New Media assignments is important
Could do a podcast or book signing or calendar or newsletter
There was some discussion of the good ole pop-up projects
I have thought about using those in my classes.
What is the role of service learning in all of this?
Something Tom said gave me a great idea for an assignment for my Composition II classes
About half way through short story period (which is first 6-7 weeks) have students pick a YouTube song that relates to a story we have read.
Write a 500 word essay about the song and story.
For example, if we read The Yellow Wallpaper, I would pick Systematic Death by Crass
Live experience of tweeting shared reading of a chapter/scene/etc
I think this would work best in an online class
Create an “exhibition” of it via Storify
An idea I loved was putting together an epub of the best work of a class
Students could be involved in the curation and editing process
General consensus in the room of “what good is one more essay?”
Signifying Nothing 2-27-12
https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-2-27-12/
Supertouch-Struggling To Communicate (Live On WNYU)
Krakdown-Idle Hands (Demo)
Pressure Release-Not In The Head (Prison Of My Hope)
Innumerable Forms-Life Beyond Life (Self Titled)
Absolution-Dead & Gone (Murders Among Us)
Bl’ast!-Look Into Myself (It’s In My Blood)
Integrity-Darkness (Those Who Fear Tomorrow)
Crossed Out-He Man (Self Titled)
Ripping Corpse-Anti God (Dreaming With The Dead)
Youth Brigade-It’s About Time We Had A Change (Possible)
Crass-Systematic Death (Penis Envy)
Partisans-Police Story (Police Story)
The Birthday Party-Jennifer’s Veil (Mutiny & The Bad Seed)
Laughing Hyenas-Walk (Crawl)
One Last Wish-Three Unkind Silences (1986)
Mind Eraser-Brought Back To Life (Generations)
Carcass Limb From Limb (Demo)
Sick Fucking O-Gut Feeling (Demo)
Miles Davis live in Switzerland 10-22-71
Directions
What I Say
Signifying Nothing Episode 03×02
https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-episode-03x02/
Hatchetface-Man Bites Dog (Volume Two)
Crass-Systematic Death (Penis Envy)
Calvary-According To Visions & Dreams (Outnumbered Is Outflanked)
No Tolerance-Boston Ex (Demo)
Rorschach-Raw Nerve (Protestant)
Assuck-State To State (State to State)
Knife Fight-Brainwashed (Isolated)
Born Against-Nine Years Later (Nine Patriotic Hymns For Children)
Black Flag-Bastard In Love (Loose Nut)
Get High-Magnetized (Demo)
Raw Deal-Wall of Hate (New Breed)
Raw Power-Police Police/Destroy (We Can Do Whatever We Want)
Stop & Think-Thick Skinned (Edge Day 2002 Demo)
FYA-Human Disgrace (Demo)
Mind Eraser-Leader (Unreleased)
October Faction-Gimmie A Quarter/Twenty Five Cents For The Bus/Bad Acid (Self Titled)