“Whoa, we’re half way there,We’ve already conquered four weeks of class with another four to go. I have to admit that I have felt very flustered by double-time pace of this course. But it has been very rewarding!
Whoa, livin’ on a prayer!”
Score: 10/10
Week 4 Collage |
Article here - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/#disqus_thread
I’ll be using Jason Ohler’s ideas on how to construct a rubric for a digital critique.
Story flow
This was a great example of a story that did make you work to understand it, but was founded on ideas so accessible and engaging that it was easy to follow through it’s conceptual and hypothetical twists and turns. This article should be required reading because it asks questions that don’t just concern the history of work (with a focus on America), but also the present atmosphere surrounding work and work/life balance in America as well as permutations of how the future of a “post-work society could look.
Craftsmanship
Concision is the story’s only weakness. But its intentions are to take on a radical paradigm shift so it’s lack of brevity can be forgiven. It was certainly crafted with care. A personal and professional search for answers about where exactly personal and professional meet, intertwine, and subsume each other.
The story is very much based around a problem solving theme. I think the most illuminating aspect is that most readers would not be able to name what the “problem” is. Not because of the technical or esoteric nature, but because it’s something that is so accepted as a part of social/cultural expectations that it’s hard to identify it as possibly also being an aberration.
The pictures included in the article help lighten this type of heavy atmosphere. Each depicts a museum of the future where the artifacts of modern work are displayed. They are humorous and profound at the same time and they help lighten the absurdity of the article.
Truth in Absurdity
Absurdity is incredibly important here, as it’s also the topic I’ve chosen as a lens to explore and the reader has to pause and reflect on the absurdity of both “how we got here” as well as “where do we go?”
4 places I wanted to visit, and did last week!
Clockwise from top left: Devil’s Tower, WY; Deadwood, SD; Mt. Rushmore, SD; the Badlands
Original Assignment Info - http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-are-you-missing-nearby/
Draw a bad photo. Why is the ship underwater? Only the octopus knows…
Original Assignment Info - http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc1269/