Another weekend, another set of global crises... it is starting to become all a bit too normalized, no? I found myself going down one too many rabbit holes on Twitter and Facebook this week as I attempted to research and follow-up on what bits of news were reliable and what could be dismissed as "fake news"-- the new pastime of many people on social media. Several circulating diagrams and articles have been making the rounds on my feeds and this concern for "alternative facts" presents academics with the perfect moment to reassert the importance of research, peer review, and critical discourse in the classroom. Whatever the motivation, I am energized to see so many students take seriously the stakes and consequences of our current political and communication climate. Enjoy the links and stay vigilant when it comes to the news and information you are consuming.
- The Revolution Has Been Digitized: Explore the Oldest Archive of Radical Posters
- Stop Problematizing Academic Jargon
- MoMA Takes a Stand: Art From Banned Countries Comes Center Stage
- Cinephiles will be jazzed by this supercut of all the film references in 'La La Land'
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show and How Sitcoms Moved to the City
- How the Fight to Own .Art Illustrates the Art World’s Inherent Contradictions
- How Frederick Douglass Harnessed the Power of Portraiture to Reframe Blackness in America
- Gerhard Richter’s Lost Cartoons
- What Makes Contemporary Photography Feminist and Queer? (VIDEO)
- The “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses … Ah, Screw It” Edition (PODCAST)