Consuming Histories
“Can we speak of a postmodern ‘history’? Not if we take postmodern theory seriously, which challenges the very idea of a unilinear history. Postmodernism cannot follow in sequence after modernism, because this would be an admission of historic progress and a relapse into Grand Narrative mythology.”
—Postmodernism for Beginners
Step5 — M Feb 9
Read — Boellstorff, Chapter 2, “History, “ 32-60 (Reader Response6)
Read — Neal Stephenson,Snow Crash, 77-121(Reader Response7 )
Due — Fieldnotes2 for Lab2 “Navigating” (pint and bring to class)
Due — Lab2 Assignment “Searching” (Create Notecard and place in Drop Box)
Step6 —W Feb 11
Read — Tony Blackshaw, “Consumerism as the Liquid Modern Way of Life, “ in Zygmunt Bauman (London: Routledge), 111-140 (Reader Response8)
Lab3 — Feb 13 “Building” (Meet in-world, at Wisdom’s Sandbox)
How to build? (learn more)
How to make a flag that waves in the wind
