Before I start this blog post, allow me to do some housekeeping. After my last post entitled John Bowlby and the Glass Cage of Automation, a reader asked if I could provide a reference on the rise of posthuman or postbiology thought. On the rise of posthuman thought I would direct the reader to Francis […]
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Archive for Nicholas Carr – Page 3
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November 24, 2014
Bringing Carr’s Glass Cage Back to Bowlbian Attachment Theory
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November 17, 2014
John Bowlby and the Glass Cage of Automation
I recently finished reading Nicholas Carr’s 2014 book The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. In many ways Glass Cage is a follow up to Carr’s 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. As you may recall, the FHL Foundation brought Carr in to speak about The Shallows as a part of […]
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June 10, 2014
TRUER WORDS: “Endangered Minds”
Today’s Truer Words come from the 1991 book by education researcher Jane Healy entitled Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It. Healy writes: While the adult community sanctimoniously bewails erosion of academic rigor and achievement … it perpetuates the practices that are shortening children’s attention spans and rendering their brains unfit […]
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February 25, 2014
Insecure Attachment & Obesity, Pre-K & Entitlement, and Classrooms & Digital Tech—Imprisoning Minds In the Object World (part II of II)
As promised at the end of part I, I’ll start part II by talking about the following three articles. In my opinion, when taken together, the following three articles paint a picture of minds imprisoned within the middle object brain (a topic I introduced in part I). Here are the three articles: How Parenting Styles […]
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Continuums on a Continuum
In part I of my last blog series (which started on March 25th, 2014) I took an in depth look at Henry Giroux’s 2013 book entitled America’s Education Deficit and the War On Youth. I used cognitive scientist turned political commentator George Lakoff’s work in the area of cultural cognitive models (i.e., the liberal Nurturant […]
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