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Kaizen Aplied to Writing

29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Kaizen, Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso:

“The Japanese term kaizen translates literally to improvement, but it’s a term that has come to mean gradual, continuous improvement of a piece of collaborative work. It’s most commonly associated with manufacturing operations, but I think it has general application to almost everything, including writing. In companies that implement kaizen, workers look continuously for small improvements that can be implemented immediately. The philosophy was developed to adjust the work process from its traditional practices, back when making a new iteration of something was laborious and had to be done all at once.”

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Steve Almond: We Need to Make the Media We Need

02 Friday Jun 2017

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Steve Almond

We are swimming in a world of lies and hype.  Politics and the consumer society are mostly based on telling us what we want to hear. And we are happy to hear exactly that. Trump supporters and his haters both.  “What do you do,” asked one of Steve Almond’s students, “if, no matter what you write, the reader won’t believe you?” Almond writes, “the nation, as a whole, seems to have no answer for it now.”  And boy, we don’t.  Even the sober mainstream press is not helping us take our eyes off the car crash that is our national experience at the moment.  He goes on to point out that the rhetorical term for all this is “epistemic closure.” “Which is what happens when folks lock themselves inside an ideological echo chamber.”

What we have is “a president for whom lying is not a last resort but a vital political tool. The essential crisis here isn’t that Trump lies. It’s that his lies work because journalists continually debate and debunk them.”

Almond’s conclusion, is that we need to read the stories that are trying to tell us what is really going on. And to read those stories with an eye to where they might be  slanted and find others to get as full a story as we can.  We will never know all the details, all the facts, but lets live in this world and not some fantasy that feeds our insecurities.

“We need to turn our attention toward those who stand to lose medical insurance or clean drinking water or even the sustenance supplied by a program like Meals on Wheels. All of us must summon the courage to seek out news sources that challenge our beliefs using empiricism, not innuendo.”

Read Almond’s full article from The Boston Globe magazine, May 28, 2017.

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Noli timere

15 Tuesday Sep 2015

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30th March – 6th April, Jeremy Solomons (USA)

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

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My paragraph on the We the Humanities website about my week 3/30 – 4/6 hosting the Twitter feed @wethehumanities

Welcome, @jcsolomons, who’ll be giving us a glimpse into his research on Anglo-Jewish theatre. Jeremy began his education in STEM and his career since then has taken in teaching, bookshop-managing and theatre. He’s known to 2/3 of the WtH team through the Readibg connection and we’re delighted that he’s submitted to our badgering and agreed to curate. Perhaps we can pester/encourage you to join in too? Find out more here.
My personal blog is called Crossing Borders. The title originated in secondary school biology class and it is a title that has grown ever closer to my life. I crossed to the Atlantic to live in Brookline, Massachusetts, 3,281 miles from where I grew up in North London. Brookline is one of the US towns with the most doctorates per capita, and to do my part I am working on my PhD closer to where I grew up at the University of Reading. My topic is Anglo-Jewish theatre, which draws together several of the interests I have collected having crossed national, language and cultural borders.

My first job was at an arts centre in Kentish Town working at a Jewish theatre festival, followed by a BSc in Botany atthe University of Durham, then traveling from one end of England and Wales to the other working as a stage manager, actor, and director in theatres large and small, and finally settling into community arts work in Gloucestershire. When I moved to Boston, I ended up teaching English–literature, writing and some drama–in colleges and universities, and eventually, I studied for my MA in English Literature at U Mass Boston where I became fascinated with literature and poetry in translation. That is where I thought my doctorate subject matter would come from, but in the end, I settled into my current topic, which feels like coming home.

I am excited to have the chance to curate @wethehumanities, and I hope we can talk about theatre, how we choose identities for ourselves, and how important the humanities are within and outside academia. I am sure we will also touch on: books, my last job was as a book store manager; music, including British punk, folk and jazz;and job hunting, my current, and hopefully temporary career.

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Goethe Quote

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” J. W. v G.

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11 Sunday May 2014

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I am working on a study of Anglo-Jewish drama and in the coming years, as I find some new material about my topic in particular or about Anglo(British)-Jewish Literature in general, I will post it on my website Anglo-Jewish Literature of the Twentieth Century or on the more informal site, J Lit from an Anglo Angle.  There is also a Twitter feed and Facebook page.  I am looking to interact with anyone with an interest in the field.

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