Hey all, some of you have been sharing some excellent source materials with me that I would like to invite the entire class to learn from, if interested. I've wanted to bring up these things in class, but we keep running out of time doing other good things. Since I don't need to come up with more writing prompts this week, I thought this would be a nice post instead.
Feel free to refer to these sources in your five-page papers if they are helpful! Let me know if you have questions about how to document these materials!
Here is a link to a recent NPR interview with Sherman Alexie on a segment called Watch This! in which celebrity figures give recommendations about television or video segments that they enjoy (awesome premise for a show, right?). Anyway, in the interview Alexie talks about basketball and noble savages, among other topics we have discussed in class. Definitely worth a quick listen if you are writing about Alexie's work. Also on the webpage are a collection of the video clips that Alexie says to watch. Thanks for sharing with us, Zachary!
Here is the Vlog Brothers' "Existential Airport Anxiety," a clever, insightful rant that references Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 but applies just as nicely with Huxley's A Brave New World. Definitely worth a watch. Thanks for sharing with us, Laura!
And this last one is from me. It is a video interview from 1995 with Neil Postman talking about "Cyberspace" (right when the internet was brand new). Anyway, interesting stuff, especially when he talks about how the internet will pull people outside of society and make them too individualistic. Shock! I would have thought he would be all about individuality over society in the same way that Huxley is, but Postman seems to make the argument that people need to be in the same buildings together so we can learn the same "language," so to speak, and keep society intact. Anyway, I thought it might interest a few of you wanting to incorporate Postman into your papers.
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