Comment on “He chose to do what is right, not what is easy” by Lindsay

Reading your blog makes me wonder if this is something that the administrators here need to consider…it seems that often folks at various institutions try to just take the easy route when it comes to a variety of things; education, policy, infrastructure, etc. It also makes me wonder what it would take for folks to be willing to take the critical practices that we discuss in class and apply them instances beyond the classroom and individual disciplines.

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Comment on The Sea, The Waves and The Ocean by Lindsay

I think I somehow missed your post the week we did this topic–I really appreciate what you say here and I wonder if you have any more thoughts about the domination piece you mention at the end. One of the thoughts bouncing around philosophy is the question of whether or not objects can serve as the extensions of our minds and “offload” elements to free up space for other things. Some folks (myself included I think) think that people can be extensions of other folks minds in systems of domination and suppression… Do you have any thoughts on whether domination and oppression are tightly interwoven with the ability to discover and explore beyond our own limited capacities as individuals?

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Comment on Welcome to Room 101 by Lindsay

After a semester of pushing all the wrong buttons on the projector screens….I’m really glad I came back to your post! One the things in philosophy that we talk about is the “extended mind” hypothesis whereby the things you use (phone, notebook, computer) can become the extensions of your mind and allow you to save cognitive resources. Rereading your post really made me wonder whether other people can count as that now (I think they can…oppression anyone) and whether we actually lose something robust in that offloading. I’ll have to keep pondering *sits down in philosophical armchair with ice-cream*

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Comment on From Tired, to Hopeful, to Mad, to Empowered by Lindsay

I agree with Michelle–I’m really thankful I came back and reread your post! Outside of pedagogy there has been a lot of liberation work going on here at Tech (as you know of course!) and a lot of it has involved horizontal hostility and a long game of administrative hoop jumping. And as you name here, it’s a process–a hard, long, painful, WTF CAN’T WE JUST BUILD A BATHROOM, conversation, but it’s a conversation we have to keep having.

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Comment on Critical Pedagogy by Lindsay

When I was going back to look at past posts this one really stuck out to me. What you said about power dynamics struck a chord with me, especially this past week when we did implicit bias for my philosophy class and sooooooooooo many undergrads didn’t want to own that they (we) have implicit biases. That and a number of them finally realized they’ve been using the wrong pronouns for the entire semester. Whoops?

I’ve definitely gotten some tools this semester to work through some of those power dynamics, and I hope that your semester has gone well even with all the additional labor!

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