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<p>Proposals I wrote said little about how cognitive research could enhance instruction and lot about how historical innovation could improve conditions for study. I addressed how cultural and educational transformations emerging with digital technologies are uncertain and unpredictable in many proposals, reports, talks, and essays. Among them, two extended essays, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1996_the_eiffel_project.pdf Power and Pedagogy] (1992) and [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1999_the_educators_manifest.pdf The Educators Manifesto ](1999), and the pedagogical rationale for a huge public-private collaboration attempted on the eve of the dot-com crash, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2000_smart_cities_new_york_full.pdf Smart Cities — New York: Electronic Education for the New Millennium] (2000) still deserve attention. </p> | <p>Proposals I wrote said little about how cognitive research could enhance instruction and lot about how historical innovation could improve conditions for study. I addressed how cultural and educational transformations emerging with digital technologies are uncertain and unpredictable in many proposals, reports, talks, and essays. Among them, two extended essays, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1996_the_eiffel_project.pdf Power and Pedagogy] (1992) and [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1999_the_educators_manifest.pdf The Educators Manifesto ](1999), and the pedagogical rationale for a huge public-private collaboration attempted on the eve of the dot-com crash, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2000_smart_cities_new_york_full.pdf Smart Cities — New York: Electronic Education for the New Millennium] (2000) still deserve attention. </p> | ||
<p>Over the past 20 years, I’ve concentrated on scholarship and technical initiatives “for their own sake.” In [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2005_homeless_intellect.pdf Homeless in the House of Intellect] (2005), I explored how the academic study of education might have a place within the ongoing historical transformation of higher education. In [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2012_enough_mcclintock.pdf Enough: A Pedagogic Speculation] (2012), I criticized present-day thinking about education and public life from an imagined perspective, far in the future, when enough — neither too much nor too little — would have supplanted the acquisitive drive for more as the basis for exercising judgment and legitimating authority. Subsequently, I published an extended essay — [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2017_formative_justice_with_annotations.pdf Formative Justice] (2017) — that brings the speculations put forward in Enough more concretely into the contemporary context.</p> | <p>Over the past 20 years, I’ve concentrated on scholarship and technical initiatives “for their own sake.” In [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2005_homeless_intellect.pdf Homeless in the House of Intellect] (2005), I explored how the academic study of education might have a place within the ongoing historical transformation of higher education. In [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2012_enough_mcclintock.pdf Enough: A Pedagogic Speculation] (2012), I criticized present-day thinking about education and public life from an imagined perspective, far in the future, when enough — neither too much nor too little — would have supplanted the acquisitive drive for more as the basis for exercising judgment and legitimating authority. Subsequently, I published an extended essay — [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2017_formative_justice_with_annotations.pdf Formative Justice] (2017) — that brings the speculations put forward in Enough more concretely into the contemporary context.</p> | ||
<p>I’m depressed by the anger that has built up in us all. The public sphere has ceased to work, enabling a few persons and organizations to arrogate wealth and power that egregiously exceeds what they can use with wisdom, compassion, or worth. Apparent action by imagined communities displaces our sense of personal agency. The public sphere has become a white noise engulfing us as persons in a din of importuning abstractions about what | <p>I’m depressed by the anger that has built up in us all. The public sphere has ceased to work, enabling a few persons and organizations to arrogate wealth and power that egregiously exceeds what they can use with wisdom, compassion, or worth. Apparent action by imagined communities displaces our sense of personal agency. The public sphere has become a white noise engulfing us as persons in a din of importuning abstractions about what fictitious entities appear to want, opine, and scheme.</p> | ||
<p>Still so much to do. Here’s to the future!</p> | <p>Where to go from here? That's a tough question. One must learn to stand alone, perceiving and acting with Stoic <i>apatheia</i> and Epicurean <i>ataraxia</i> to sustain life as best one can in the actual circumstances within which one lives. For me, that amounts to trtying to construct [https://aplacetostudy.org/wiki/Main_Page a place to study] where I can use my intelligence, judgment, and care in my actual circumstances to live my life as best I can.</p> | ||
<p><b><i>Still so much to do. Here’s to the future!</i></b></p> | |||