Category Archives: Remix

Reflection on an ongoing collaboration

Posted on 13th November 2024 by NomadWarMachine

“Postcards on Pedagogy” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license It’s a couple of weeks into the UW/UofG collaboration, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to reflect on my experiences so far. It started … Continue reading →

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N+ Sonnet

Posted on 3rd October 2024 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to share a poem in celebration of National Poetry Day, with this year’s theme being counting. I chose a Shakespeare Sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more … Continue reading →

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Stir Up Sunday

Posted on 26th November 2023 by NomadWarMachine

Today is Stir-up Sunday, the day when families gather around stir their homemade Christmas pudding on the last Sunday before advent begins. I made mine yesterday, as it takes seven hours to steam and we take lunch over to my … Continue reading →

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Remixometer

Posted on 28th May 2023 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create challenges participants to make a FitBit type device to measure something that would not usually be measured. My suggestion is a remixometer – a way of measuring the amount of originality, ingenuity … whatever property or quality … Continue reading →

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McLuhan’s Tetrad

Posted on 6th May 2023 by NomadWarMachine

I’m keeping half an eye on #ETMooc2 at the moment, and one of this week’s suggested activities caught my interest. Activity #1 – Marshall McLuhan Tetrad of Effects for Generative AI: What are the opportunities and challenges presented by the … Continue reading →

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Daily Create 2023

Posted on 1st January 2023 by NomadWarMachine

I first did a Daily Create on 19th March 2016, and I’ve been doing it daily for years now. As of this morning I have completed 2465 challenges. Sometimes, when I have a bit of spare time, I look back … Continue reading →

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Heideggerian Art

Posted on 29th May 2022 by NomadWarMachine

Inspired by a Twitter conversion, I added a couple of phases from Heidegger to an AI art generator and this is the result. These are the phrases: Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? Language remains the master … Continue reading →

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Aletheia

Posted on 28th May 2022 by NomadWarMachine

Aletheia was a Greek Goddess. The word is often translated into English as truth – and Aletheia’s Roman counterpart is called Veritas. However, as Heidegger and others say, truth is really insufficient as a translation. Truth is a noun in … Continue reading →

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Start copying

Posted on 25th May 2022 by NomadWarMachine

I think I’ve always been a bricoleur – it’s a family trait. But it’s not without danger. When I read this page by Austin Kleon, I remembered happy times messing around with my brother. We were big fans of seeing … Continue reading →

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Heidegger and Bricolage Part 2

Posted on 21st May 2022 by NomadWarMachine

In my earlier post I suggested that Heidegger thought of understanding as being an uncovering of meaning, and I further suggested that this is one of the things that we bricoleurs do when we mix and remix. In this post … Continue reading →

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