Berlin Music Video Awards. Tribe - Sanema. May 1968 Graffiti. In the decor of the spectacle, the eye meets only things and their prices.
Commute, work, commute, sleep . . . Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can and many say, “We will breathe later.” And most of them don’t die because they are already dead. Boredom is counterrevolutionary. We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom. Humanities Lab Projects: Philosophical Stages. Project Description: Philosophical Stages is a multi-disciplinary research project that will develop new strategies for using the dramatic arts to teach philosophy to pre-college and early-college students, thereby fostering skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective self-presentation. We propose to investigate how emerging technologies in the humanities (e.g. collaborative web-based authoring environments) can be used to promote not only 'communities of inquiry', but collaborative, creative artistic projects which make philosophy not only more exciting but more immediately relevant to the lives of young students.
Philosophy can be a functional and practical activity, and action-oriented, dramatic exercises have traditionally provided and can now provide an excellent outlet for young adults to explore and articulate their ideas with confidence. Our goals for our first year in the Stanford Humanities Lab include: