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Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Ruminating on a Self-Sustaining Class in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 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 […]
Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Ash and the Space of Bodies in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 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 […]
Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Cemetery Celebrations and the Segregation of the Dead – Part 2 in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months 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 […]
Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Dogs, Elegies, Progress, and David Byrne in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months 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 […]
Jack Snyder edited the blog post Cemetery Celebrations and the Segregation of the Dead – Part 1 in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months 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]
Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Comparing Movie Introductions (Feat. Roach) in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 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 […]
Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Snakes and Ladders – The Place of Water in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 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 […]
Jack Snyder edited the blog post The Ecological Benefits of Good Advertising in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 8 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]
Jack Snyder wrote a new blog post Practice Map Jack Snyder in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 9 months ago
Jack Snyder edited the blog post Progress: The MTA as a Model for Positive Corporate Propaganda in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 10 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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