English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jack Snyder | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jacksnyder/activity/ Activity feed for Jack Snyder. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d2b9e5a910fe3ba29b512c758d4fa2ba Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Ruminating on a Self-Sustaining Class in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10202/ Thu, 03 May 2018 00:16:57 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 6602c1406331a82a323925e06c8aaab0 Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Ash and the Space of Bodies in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10108/ Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:39:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 04b2a8a8f2849575a6a4585165c769b5 Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Cemetery Celebrations and the Segregation of the Dead – Part 2 in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9895/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:26:50 -0500 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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]]> 0 a8a32e5ed6421cbd6639125659871026 Jack Snyder edited the blog post Cemetery Celebrations and the Segregation of the Dead - Part 1 in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9752/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:22:23 -0500 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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]]> 0 6e01454c77e96a73606b968069c1b829 Jack Snyder edited the blog post The Ecological Benefits of Good Advertising in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9320/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:58:46 -0500
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]

]]> 0 da3ed2bfb422392801e57a0e0f94afd3 Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Practice Map Jack Snyder in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9025/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:39:45 -0500

]]> 0 908ed7ffad4ef87f6f8759eef9f0c563 Jack Snyder edited the blog post Progress: The MTA as a Model for Positive Corporate Propaganda in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8965/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:25:29 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f612c88d38b1136202255762cf94de2b jacksnyder wrote a new blog post Around DH in 80 Days in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8736/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 03:17:53 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 01836ae60873ba7041d419ca43e5a9dd Jack Snyder's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8672/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:40:06 -0500 0 67beffa01540239953b63fa45a7218fc Jack Snyder replied to the topic Visions of Education in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/visions-of-education/#post-1101 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:51:29 -0500 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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  • 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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    ]]>         52c445bde693ff053f7d5f7448a4bd91 Jack Snyder replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/gleick-on-information/#post-1080 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:34:58 -0500
  • 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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    ]]>         5467cbe1a4f10bf48bbdaa5199fc9f3d Jack Snyder replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/gleick-on-words/#post-1065 Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:07:52 -0500
  • 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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    ]]>         a507b4b3e7a25be26e7cfa47bc141567 Jack Snyder joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8474/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:10:14 -0500 0 0d6902017762c3a0b2663b7bc4d8c6df Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post 4 Your Eyez Only in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8247/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:45:43 -0500 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 […]

    ]]>     0     1e2c5c4c4f265c132519badef9fb7df7 Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post The Fear of Lost History and Ould Lowe's Place in Stonehouses in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8238/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:33:42 -0500 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 […]

    ]]>     0     66ea6838623b5ae41b2c65e807d6ba3f Jack Snyder edited the blog post Reinvigorated Revisions: Colonial and Frankenstein-esque Experimentation Upon Economics and Enslaved Peoples in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8159/ Sat, 01 Apr 2017 21:13:55 -0500 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]

    ]]>     0     a9e1a2335cd8321623075694db566e6c Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post A House Analogy Related To The Turner House in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8083/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:16:52 -0500 While thinking about progression in The Turner House last class, I remembered an analogy that I had stumbled upon before even starting the class. I found this analogy in a horror game called “ANATOMY.” At $3, the […]

    ]]>     0     96fde06ee521d305b751e6180df35829 Jack Snyder edited the blog post An Environmental-Psychological Perspective on "Violence" From Overconsumers in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7895/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:38:12 -0500 A topic of discussion during last Friday’s class was Joseph Roach’s interpretations of Bataille’s claim that “violence is the performance of waste” (41). We mainly focused on “violence” as the natural definition of the word pertaining to physical destructive forces, and how ‘people with little’ felt inclined to this violence towards ‘people with…[Read more]

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