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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Ruminating on a Self-Sustaining Class in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Beth has repeatedly made it clear to us that her goal for the class was to be irrelevant by the end of the semester – reaching a point where she has taught us so much that we, as students, can take the materials […]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Ash and the Space of Bodies in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
In Zone One, Mark Spitz repeatedly comments about the ash in the air – its in the rain, its on his skin, it coats his lungs. It is not until Mark Spitz details the invention of the “Coakley” incinerators and […]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Cemetery Celebrations and the Segregation of the Dead – Part 2 in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
Inspired by the budding area of digital humanities at Geneseo, for about a month now I have been slowly working to accumulate the ideas from my previous cemetery celebrations post into a digital humanities […]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Dogs, Elegies, Progress, and David Byrne in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
I left class on Friday with no shortage of ideas for blog posts, prompted by Beth to consider why Patricia Smith would elegize Luther B (a dog) in several poems across Blood Dazzler. The poems tell a story of how […]
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Jack Snyder edited the blog post Cemetery Celebrations and the Segregation of the Dead – Part 1 in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Joseph Roach mentions in “The Segregation of the Dead” what Joseph Addison calls “the Confines of the Dead,” the boundaries which “separate life from the afterlife,” and elaborated on their physical manifestations in cemeteries (48). Roach describes the omnipresence of the dead both in their spirits and in their physical remains, the latter of…[Read more]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Comparing Movie Introductions (Feat. Roach) in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
From the very first moments of When the Levees Broke, I was struck by the contrasting imagery shown in its introduction. The introduction to this film in the place of our class serves to transition us from from […]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Snakes and Ladders – The Place of Water in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
In Solnit and Snedeker’s Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, “Snakes and Ladders” is a New Orleans map which geographically locates and symbolically categorizes acts by civilians and law enforcement into […]
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Jack Snyder edited the blog post The Ecological Benefits of Good Advertising in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
This project is live at https://jacksnyderdh.wordpress.com/
The purpose of this project is to show how the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) builds a community between a company and its consumers through carefully crafted advertisements in a way that benefits both the MTA and the riders. I analyze details ranging from the implications of…[Read more]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Practice Map Jack Snyder in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
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Jack Snyder edited the blog post Progress: The MTA as a Model for Positive Corporate Propaganda in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
My website hosting this project is live and can be viewed at any time at https://jacksnyderdh.wordpress.com/
My projects purpose is to highlight a subtle aspect of New York City life that I find intriguing – the MTA’s advertisements. These advertisements work as a positive form of corporate propaganda to build a sense of community amongst…[Read more]
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jacksnyder wrote a new blog post Around DH in 80 Days in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 6 months ago
“Around DH in 80 Days” is a Jekyll site made to collect interesting Digital Humanities projects from around the world and share them with a larger audience in an accessible and interesting format. The title is a […]
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Jack Snyder's profile was updated 6 years, 7 months ago
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Jack Snyder replied to the topic Visions of Education in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
Wells’ chief complaints about the education system revolve around people’s lack of understanding of politics, and their “crazy combative patriotism” which is at odds with our sense of humanity and is not at all beneficial to the world. Wells’ proposed lesson plan for teaching children only the most important knowledge during their limited time at…[Read more]
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Jack Snyder replied to the topic Vannevar Bush's Memex in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- Bush tackles the issue of getting lost in the massive amounts of new research that is constantly being done and developed at such a rate where it is impossible to keep up with it all. Bush’s proposed “memex” would allow people to have a library at their fingertips, with the ability to browse through documents, and to even find and share one’s…
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Jack Snyder replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- Before this reading I’d thought of computers in a more physical sense with parts and software that reads, writes, or executes code on a hard-drive using its other parts. I dont know how I would change my definition, but I can definitely say that Alan Turing breaking down computers into such a simple machine in a thought experiment was very…
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Jack Snyder replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- Fact in the chapter that most surprised me was that the OED, proposed to be a perfect record of the English language, contained so many variations of different words’ spellings. The OED lists “every form in which a word has occurred throughout its history,” which makes sense from a preservationist’s perspective, and yet still feels strangely…
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Jack Snyder joined the group Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post 4 Your Eyez Only in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
J. Cole dropped one of my favorite albums of 2016 in 4 Your Eyez Only, with powerful storytelling and interesting perspectives on racial tensions, having a family in a crime filled life, and being remembered, an […]
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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post The Fear of Lost History and Ould Lowe’s Place in Stonehouses in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
For the past several years I’ve been interested in the fear of forgetting history. This was sparked by my father’s hoarding of newspapers, embodying the human hunger for knowledge and unwillingness to let go of […]
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Jack Snyder edited the blog post Reinvigorated Revisions: Colonial and Frankenstein-esque Experimentation Upon Economics and Enslaved Peoples in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
I had planned upon revisiting this abandoned draft after beginning A Mercy and realizing that the novel took place in colonial America, but yesterday’s class reinvigorated my desire to finish the post and push it out, as we have just finished A Mercy and it’s not quite too late to post it.
In my other English class about modern western drama,…[Read more]
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