Author: Phoebe Glick

Have you personally witnessed the effects of neoliberalism as a resident of New York? How exactly? Has the landscape of New York changed since you’ve lived here? Are there public/ social services you’ve witnessed being replaced by for-profit, privately-owed measures? Relate your own observations to an argument or multiple made in Dickinson’s text. Write 300 words by end of day Wednesday. By end of day Thursday, leave a 50-word comment on 2 peer posts.

Bonus: what does the meme mean in the context of the article? or just in general?

For the first blog of the Spring semester, pick a piece of art that represents you (painting, poem, music, film, object, game, symbol… the list goes on). Include a photo of the piece, or of something that represents it in your post. Under the photo, introduce yourself with your name and anything else you want to mention up front. Then, explain how the piece of art represents you, introducing us to you in the process. Say more than “I like it,” describe what qualities you share with the piece, what it reveals about you, or why it resonates. Write 250 words by class time on Wednesday, 2/2.

*Note: if we consider art in the interpretive sense, then you can make a case for art being just about anything. Once I had a student upload a picture of a Sprite bottle, with a convincing testimony to its artistic merit.