Stay inspired

It is the Winter break for students. We are busy marking and doing the administrative stuff of preparation for the new term. There will be less/no email contact but watch Helen and my blogs for posts for up-coming new term events (and check emails for welcome pack if you are new to the programme.)

Please check your University emails for anything the Uni might be in contact with you about!
Maybe see you at the Module Three presentations

Meanwhile let's keep inspired:-

Please put links to Ted talks or art work or other inspiring or art making/thought provoking things in the comments.

Where am 'I' in this... (writing in First person)

We ask you to writing in First person because you are the filter through which you are experiencing life and making meaning. This is seeing a constructed world in which you are the builder. We need to know who is doing the building – you need to present. This raises questions about what is truth – is it more ‘true if I writing the building was the best thing every built’ or if I write ‘I felt the building was the best construction I had walked into.’ Is the building better because you are out of the sentence? 

We have to ask where we stand on truth, learning, facts – objective truth. Here is montage of videos and questions that together an assemblage for addressing the ethics of where ‘I’ am in what I write…  

Lying is a corporative act so is truth... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6vDLq64gE&t=197s

Truth – learn from history for the better of the world – there is objective truth...

https://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_lipstadt_behind_the_lies_of_holocaust_denial/up-next?language=en#t-24829

https://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_lipstadt_behind_the_lies_of_holocaust_denial/up-next?language=en#t-24829

and so for me kindness is key 

But what about being kind has the danger of being gullible... (swearing below!!)

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo

....truth... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Uc-cztsJo&t=115s

(digital) literacy becomes important...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dceyy0cX6J4

‘…gave us access to everything but it also gave everything to us… discriminate between the things that genuinely matter and the' rhetoric 'of life…’ 

Where you are in all this determines what it means... so you need to be present in it when you write about it. That is why we ask you write in first person. 

What do you think?...