Course Collage

Every time we met for this class, our professor had a slide deck on the board that would guide us through the ideas we were discussing throughout the semester. The following slides stood out to me, and their ideas will stay with me throughout the rest of my career.

Expansion v. Breach

I've always had these concepts in my head, but I had never had a clear way to explain it to others. After taking this course, I do still believe that the expansion of the humanities is always happening, but generative AI is leading us towards a breach.

Humanitas

There is something specific and special that makes us human, and humanitas is the perfect way to describe it. The concept of philanthropia also stands out to me because it isn't something we really talk about anymore, but it something we shouldn't take for granted.

Sketches a Bird

The ending of this story was so impactful for many reasons, but the death of the bird is the most obvious. This is the essence of decadence. The author killed the bird in an attempt to preserve it forever just as generative AI destorys the planet as it tries to recreate it.

SEAM

I've never focused on a specific element when thinking about public writing before, and I most likely never would have without this class. By focusing on one or more elements of SEAM I can more coherently stitch my ideas together in a way that makes a public audience care.

Future Library

Honestly, the concept of this freaks me out. I'm not sure I could ever put my own writing in there, not that I'd be asked to. Since the people who started it won't live to see it, if this completely comes to fruition, it will be beautiful that a community came together to continue one person's dream a century later.

Ask a Librarian

A giant sign encouraging people to go to the librarians, but it is next to a giant screen, and everyone behind them is staring at a screen. To me it is a bit ironic. I understand that technology can help with the organization of a library a great deal, but if you are physically at the Library of Congress, I think seeing the real documents is much more impactful and should be emphasized more than a library's website.

Conditions of Creation and Consumption

Conditons have the power to change everything before and after creation. Sometimes with it comes to consumption, the conditions of creation don't even matter because the conditions of consumption can completely change the meaning. I love interpretting one thing in many different ways, so this concept will always fascinate me.

Lynching Memorial

Especially in today's America, I don't think people genuinely understand just how devastating the impact of lynching was and still is. A way to get to people is to make something tangible, and this is. Reading a list online will never be as impactful as seeing it in person, and this shock factor is something that I believe we need.

The River Remembers

I had never known about the Mississippi River flooding the old path that it takes, but I think this is something that humans always do. No matter how hard people may try to erase certain stories, the graves will always be there and the stories along with them. Just as the land remembers, so do we.

The Humanities

I have heard arguments like this before, but it is extremely disappointing to hear it from someone as intelligent and influential as Neil deGrasse Tyson. I would expect this from someone who never gave a second thought to their humanities classes in grade school, but not someone who is trying to actively solve the mysterious of our galaxy. Regardless of what someone is studying, the use of humanitites to learn how facts become knowledge is something I believe that everyone should know, and it is clear to me that we do learn how it happens. I know you know that the letter was scarlet for a reason, so I know you have the knowledge to find out why the curtains are blue.

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