is a meditation on how learning has changed, at the hands of the
internet
always being in our hands.
While enrolled in an experiential writing seminar called
“Wasting Time on the Internet,” I resisted wasted time by
emailing my friends at the start of every class. I asked them a
simple question:
“what can I learn today?”
Their replies had much to do with growth and a vision of time
thought through
resistance to the stifling ordinariness of internet
stuplimity.
On paper, readers must fight the tedium of following elementary
school style
directions to cut out 140 study cards -- each with their own
URLs, poems and
insights. As learning changes we must remember what it felt like
to learn even
10 years ago. Knowledge is care.
Type out your URLs like you’d practice handwriting, if you
care.
See where it all takes you.
I leave this digital remix here for readers to speculate upon --
how can we re-imagine writing as the kind of cutting
and pasting we can really learn from?
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