December 2010
4 posts
Notes from Emily Ruth Cohen's Creative Morning...
Well, notes from a single slide, anyway. With maybe just a trace of hyperbole, I tweeted that the slide below brought tears to my eyes. A couple people asked for a clearer picture. I’ll try to do one better: what follows are the bullet points from the slides and the remarks I remember from each. I’m working from memory, so if you were there and can clarify these notes, please comment!
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Entitlement, attention, and daring to give a shit
I had the good luck to come across three separate pieces of writing this week that described quite clearly, I thought, how it feels to be alive at this moment. Together, these pieces reminded me of some of the primary sources professors carefully chose for me as a history undergraduate; they were such clear-eyed assessments and resonated so deeply that they seemed like they were written about 2010...