by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | All Blog Posts
After participating with Cathy Davidson, Howard Rheingold, Anne Balsamo on a live chat regarding how Brain Science Will Change the Way We Think, sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education, I compare that discussion to Lucy Alford’s brilliant thesis on... by palumbo-liu | Aug 7, 2012 | All Blog Posts
At the invitation of a colleague, I mused upon the “crisis” in the humanities and offered another take. Eventually Open Culture retweeted it and it got 30,000 readers. Afterwards engaged in a give and take with Ian Bogost. by palumbo-liu | Aug 7, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
I had long been interested in how rational choice theory seemed to be a widely subscribed to formula for understanding human behavior. What would happen, I wondered, if we put it into “conversation” with humanists? As a starting point, I canvassed...