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While most critical studies of born-digital literature celebrate it as a postmodern art form with roots in contemporary technologies and social interactions, Digital Modernism provides an alternative genealogy. Grounding her argument in literary history, media studies, and the practice of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to demonstrate how the modernist movement of the 1920s and 1930s laid the groundwork for the innovations of electronic literature. Accordingly, Digital Modernism makes the case for considering these digital creations as "literature" and argues for the value of reading them carefully, closely, and within literary history.

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Pregnancy and olfaction: a review

E. Leslie Cameron

Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science, vol.5·2014·54 citations

Many women report a heightened sense of smell during pregnancy. Accounts of these anecdotes have existed for over 100 years, but scientific evidence has been sparse and inconclusive. In this review, I examine the literature on olfactory perception during pregnancy including measures of self-report, olfactory thresholds, odor identification, intensity and hedonic ratings, and disgust. Support for a general decrease in olfactory thresholds (increase in sensitivity) is generally lacking. There is limited evidence that some suprathreshold measures of olfactory perception, such as hedonic ratings of odors, are affected by pregnancy, but these effects are idiosyncratic. In this review, I explore the hypotheses that have been put forth to explain changes in olfactory perception during pregnancy and provide suggestions for further research.

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True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images, and Film Theory

Stephen Prince

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1213468?origin=JSTOR-pdf·2014

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Mike Rose: New Edition of Book Examines Educational Inequality, Economic Focus, Character Education - UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

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UCLA School of Education & Information Studies·2014

Another development is the resurgence of character education, that is, a renewed interest in trying to teach children certain character qualities like perseverance, flexibility, positive thinking, and, the new buzzword, “grit.” The focus of character education these days is on poor children, the idea being that if they had more of these characteristics, they would fare better against the assaults of poverty. Character education is part of any educational system. If you look at the McGuffey Readers that were used in the United States in the 19th Century, they are imbued with ethical maxims. It’s a good thing for schools to be concerned with the development of traits like perseverance and flexibility, of course. What concerns me about the current rush to character education is that it, in some cases, is offered as a solution to the achievement gap. So instead of policy to address poverty, we have these educational and psychological interventions for poor kids. Overall, my biggest concern, the central idea of “Why School?,” is that the purpose of education in the United States has gotten so narrow. Education is more than just a technocratic and economic enterprise, which is the message you get from the educational policy that has been in place for several decades. Everything you read from the state or federal government justifies education for its economic payoff, both for society and the individual. National reform movements have promulgated technocratic fixes, whether through standardized test scores, quantitative methods to evaluate teachers, or ways to structure schools that are more in line with management principles than educational principles. A whole generation has come of age not hearing any other way to think about school. “We’ve lost hope in the public sphere and grab at market-based and private solutions, which undercut the sharing of obligation and risk and keep us scrambling for individual advantage. Though we pride ourselves as a nation of opportunity and a second chance, our social policies can be terribly ungenerous… We’ve narrowed the purpose of schooling to economic competitiveness, our kids becoming economic indicators. And we’ve reduced our definition of human development and achievement—that miraculous growth of intelligence, sensibility, and the discovery of the world—to a test score.”

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Reclaiming Third World Feminism

Ranjoo Seodu Herr

Meridians·2014·58 citations

Abstract Third World and transnational feminisms have emerged in opposition to white second-wave feminists' single-pronged analyses of gender oppression that elided Third World women's multiple and complex oppressions in their various social locations. Consequently, these feminisms share two “Third World feminist” mandates: First, feminist analyses of Third World women's oppression and resistance should be historically situated; and second, Third World women's agency and voices should be respected. Despite these shared mandates, they have diverged in their proper domains of investigation, with transnational feminism concentrating on the transnational level and Third World feminism focusing on local and national contexts. Further, their respective positions regarding nation-states and nationalism have been antithetical, as leading transnational feminists have categorically rejected nation-states and nationalism as detrimental to feminism. In recent decades, transnational feminism has become the dominant feminist position on Third World women, overshadowing Third World feminism, and the dismissal of nation-states and nationalism as irrelevant to feminism has become fashionable. Against this current trend, this article argues for the relevance of nation-states and nationalism for transnational feminism and the urgency of reclaiming Third World feminism.

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Charming Witches:

Diane Purkiss

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural·2014

ABSTRACT This article examines the charms transcribed in detail in Thomas Potts's pamphlet The wonderfull discouerie of witches in the countie of Lancaster (1613), hitherto treated only briefly by historians. All the charms are related closely to authentic and well-attested older and mostly late medieval traditions of charming, identified here. After considering the possibility that Potts includes these charms as part of his anti-Papist polemical stance, the article then ponders the ways in which the charms are both meticulously detailed and also garbled. Through an examination of the role of gabbling or garbling in both medieval high magic and in Protestant anti-Latin satire, the place of garbled or ungrammatical Latin in particular is presented as an integral part both of magic and of antipopery. In particular, the reference to the Five Wounds in one of the charms is read as bringing together the themes of authentic remembrance of Catholic religious practice and fear of Catholic insurgency harking back to the rebellions of the past.

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The Modern Cult of Efficiency

Tina Trujillo

Educational Policy·2014·64 citations

This article analyzes one intermediary organization. It draws on critical policy studies to frame the agency’s behaviors amid a discourse of managerialism in the public sector, and critical studies of education markets to explain the relationships between its reforms and education policy. Findings illustrate how the intermediary enacted managerial data monitoring systems as the core drivers of its reforms; how it framed leadership and teaching as reductive, managerialist pursuits; and why its reliance on business-inspired logics, roles, and language enabled it to compete in a marketplace and preserve its industry niche. In this way, its behaviors resembled those of the “efficiency experts” during the industrial revolution. The result was an intermediary that erroneously equated data with professional judgment, and that guided decisions based not on a century’s worth of evidence about the limitations of purely managerial reforms, but on an enduring ideological faith in technocratic solutions to complex social problems.

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