“Deep down there is no deep down.”
– Shirley MacLaine as Endora, “Bewitched” (2005)
#edgeswitch @idendefying
Did you miss the live tweeting from yesterday’s code switching workshop
at Lehigh University, featuring four of Culture on the Edge‘s
members among the seven presenters?
Well, it’s not hard to find — @idendefying
And there’s a group discussion today from
10:00 am – 12:00 pm (U.S. eastern time),
which will be live tweeted too.
#edgeswitch is Underway
Live Tweets at @idendefying
Matters of Classification
The online debates have already begun, on the heels of yesterday’s deadly shooting at a Jewish community center, and then a nearby retirement community, in a suburb of Kansas City.
On the Southern Poverty Law Center’s site, where the suspect’s well-known far right background is reported, you can also find the above discussion among the reader comments, as part of a larger series of comments, concerning how we will now come to understand, and thus respond to, the event. Continue reading “Matters of Classification”
#edgeswitch Begins Today
Follow the workshop (beginning today @ 10 am eastern time) on Twitter
“The Jewish People”
A meme circulating on Facebook recently came from the website JewsNews, which identifies its objective as “bringing truthful news to the world” for its readers, whom it identifies as primarily “Jews and supporters of Israel”. The meme entitled “Let’s Sum Up The Jewish People In A Nutshell” repeated a photo of a presumably Orthodox Jewish man with captions like the following: “Religion doesn’t allow pork . . . doesn’t try to make it illegal,” “Cashier says ‘Merry Christmas’ . . . doesn’t complain about a ‘War on Hanukkah,” and “Thinks differently than you . . . doesn’t tell you you’re going to hell.” I certainly read those captions as an effort to critique particular expressions among some Christians in the United States, presenting “The Jewish People” as more inclusive and respecting. Continue reading ““The Jewish People””
The Center’s Edge
Did you catch this interview, earlier today, with Francesca Marciano, about her new collection of stories, The Other Language? It seems to be all about code switching — at least if we understand code switching as found all across culture.
Give it a listen… Continue reading “The Center’s Edge”
Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Critical Thinking Engines…
Along with your morning coffee,
we’re hoping that a regular
dose of critical thinking
gets your day off
to the right start.
On Playing it Straight
I’ve long known why I like Will Ferrell movies — he always plays it straight. No matter what character he adopts, he rides it as far as it’ll take him, never feeling the need that he has to wink to the audience, to let us in on the secret that he really isn’t that way himself, that he’s just playing a character.
That is, he never breaks the fourth wall. Continue reading “On Playing it Straight”
Start Spreadin’ the News…
Yes, there was a disturbance in the Force: three members of Culture on the Edge are in the Big Apple — or should we say New York City? — on the eve of the code switching workshop, where they’ll be joined by a fourth member of our group.
Learn more at Lehigh University
when the Edge comes to town
this Monday and Tuesday