What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

HW 11 - Self-Experiment 1

Vary your digital routine in a conscious and thoughtful way, pay attention to the experience, write up a post describing your efforts and analyzing the effects.

You may either select an idea from class (digital fast, digital doubling, contrasting digital and reading, digital-free after 8pm, etc) or make up your own.

Have fun.

Please post your description and analysis by Thursday night, Oct. 8.


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