Mat Wall-Smith
psysoph.bsky.social
Mat Wall-Smith
@psysoph.bsky.social
Critical Media theorist and experimentalist working at the intersection of affect-technics-ecology.
Reposted by Mat Wall-Smith
The author of SIFT is @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. I first encountered it in 2020. See hapgood.us/2019/06/19/s...

I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
SIFT (The Four Moves)
How can students get better at sorting truth from fiction from everything in between? At applying their attention to the things that matter? At amplifying better treatments of issues, and avoiding …
hapgood.us
February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Mat Wall-Smith
And if you’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" give yourself 10 minutes to do so—in many ways I feel my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy"
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
www.ursulakleguin.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The bully boys are emboldened. The hatred is spreading to the ‘left’ as some unidentifiable meta-foe of the ‘common man’. I’m not sure where this will stop..
January 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Do you want your kid’s education experience to be comprehensive or selective? Same goes for any other institution that excludes rather than includes. The rot starts and is perpetuated here. There is no place for exclusivity in a public system…especially…but I’ll stop the rant there.
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Your kid is not special - all kids are special - and understanding how to value people for their difference is the ultimate superpower…. You know the best place to learn and reinforce that? Your local comprehensive public high school.
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM