by csins1 | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I must admit, I’ve struggled over the past couple of months in this class in coming to a common ground of thinking of exposition and its ties to material culture. I haven’t found the course particularly easy in terms of digesting the assigned reading and...
by bpayne8 | Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Innovation is change that unlocks new value” – Jamie Notter I think the quote above explains the answers to alot of the questions we had as a class. Its hold the key to why it has been difficult to find information on our artifacts as well as how...
by admin | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog Project Prompts, Front Page, Wanting Things
Over the course of the semester, one of the things we have circled around is the problem of desire. To what extent is our desire for things an intrinsic and necessary part of human existence? For example, we need objects to help us accomplish the...
by admin | Nov 13, 2015 | Blog Project Prompts, Front Page, Telling History, Uncategorized
History’s Silences In his response for Blog #7, Chris remarks on how difficult it can be to discover an object’s history, even the history of an object produced during and for one of the most documented and studied events in U.S. history, the Civil War:...
by ccantrell11 | Nov 4, 2015 | Sharp Things
An object can shift in purpose as desired. It can function interchangeably from a tool or an ordinary, everyday object—used as directed, into an object capable of violence or some other form of abuse. Some objects are more notably abused than others and often are...
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