30DoS 2020 – Day 4

Stephen’s Web – OLDaily

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Link to website: https://www.downes.ca

Teaching during a pandemic (curated link)

Keeping kids engaged in remote learning

Sharing Indigenous Cultural Heritage Online: An Overview of GLAM Policies

Ulysses

Ulysses is a great writing tool. Like Word, but without all the clutter. It uses simple markup tags like hashtags and asterisks to tell the programme you export to how to handle the text. This means you can write a piece once and export it to Word, a blog, a pdf file, or a host of other sources. It has its own file tree structure, so you can write any document, big or small, in parts and bring them together at the end. It’s designed for writing with. As normal, there’s a free intro version and you pay for more tools.

Link to website: https://ulysses.app

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlA28DdeEQEq8ViQEmu-GA

A critique of political reason by Thomas Lemke

The main thesis of the book is that there is a major transformation in the problematics of power in the work of the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault which is rarely taken into account. In the centre of this »theoretical displacement« (Foucault) is the notion of government, that is mainly developed in the – still unpublished – 1978 and 1979 lessons at the Collège de France. I try to reconstruct this problematics of government by presenting material which is until now only available on audio tapes in the Foucault archive in Paris and which will appear here for the first time. These lessons are essential to understand Foucaults change of the project of the History of Sexuality and his later interest in pre-Christian forms of subjectivity. It is also essential to make sense of his later differentiation between power and domination and the question of bio-politics.

Link to book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/critique-of-political-reason-9781788732512/