#openculture

[gmrstudios]

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2913 - Reading Vonnegut's Letters. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-2913-reading.html #vonnegut #literatureposts #benedictcumberbatch #ianmckellen #openculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CodwypdLd-YFLBIKEap0XLK3ZEMlvh2e1cEqVc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mathhombre]

Charles Dodgsons' Alice Art

Lewis Carroll illustrated the first copy of his Alice in Wonderland! Amazing - why don't they just print this? Oh, they do!

Seen at OpenCulture. Archive has a typeset version with his illustrations.

[elisgeorge]

Did you know there are services that offer free university-level modules, for free?

I am one of those people that are obsessed with learning, but structured courses are expensive. Not these. Here are some links if you, too, are obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge and want to learn something (for FREE!)

EdX is my personal favourite. It offers loads of subjects that are usually taken from university courses, and the ones that I have done are pretty good. These can all be taken for free, or you can pay £40 to take the assignments and recieve a graded certificate. Now, the catch here is that most of the courses are archived, which means that, occasionally, some of the links won't work and you have to be creative with the readings. I have found this to be a pretty minimal issue though, and it is worth it.

I recently took this EdX course about 19th Century literature and it was excellent. Some of the links were broken so I took some creative liberties with the readings, but I read all of the books discussed and used the course materials to critically analyse them as I did so. I didn't follow the course exactly, but it was still an enriching experience and something I wouldn't have thought to do otherwise.

Another good one is OpenLearn, which is a branch of the Open University. The OpenLearn courses are usually pretty good, although some can feel a bit lackluster and basic. Don't expect super in-depth courses, but they're good for an introduction to a subject, or to top up your skills in somethign you haven't done in a while. These offer free certificates of participation, so they're great if, say, you want a career change but you haven't studied data science since college. I enjoyed the classes I took, but I wouldn't say they were as challenging as EdX.

I recently took this OpenLearn course about Hadrian's Rome. Classical history is something I'm interested in and this was a great way to guide my study of an aspect of it.

Coursera is a very popular one. Similar to OpenLearn, these courses can sometimes be a little surface-level. These also have a much larger focus on building transferrable skills than developing cultural knowledge and learning for your own enrichment. Even so, there are some wonderful gems on there if you're willing to scroll through and find them. Coursera is also great because it has project-centred courses, where you work towards a finished product under the (virtual, recorded) guidance of an expert. Think of it like a corporate skillshare.

Last summer I took this Coursera course about screenwriting. It was project based, and I came out of it with a fully realised first draft of a pilot episode of a TV show. I realised through this process that maybe screenwriting wasn't for me, but it allowed me to get out of my comfort zone with writing and explore that avenue that I would have probably always wodered about.

OpenCulture is a good database of free courses that then redirects you to other websites, but you have to be willing to sift through the sludge with this one, as some are more worth your time than others.

Another good way to find free courses is to search for them on university websites. I have found that most US universities (and loads of UK ones too, though it is less common) offer free online courses. You have to be careful here, because sometimes they will say they are free but actually the 'free' part is viewing the syllabus.

You might be thinking 'what is the point of a course that doesn't get me a qualification?' and I'd say 'I get you, because I felt the same way,' but if you're anything like me and love learning, they're a godsend. Of course, there is nothing stopping you from finding all of the course content online, and I'd actually encourage you to do that alongside the courses, but knowing where to start is the difficult part. There is so much information to learn about any given topic that it can be overwhelming. These courses provide you with a structure that you can then use within your own wider research to learn about subjects you maybe don't want to commit to in a formal setting.

I'm not paid by any of these websites, I just think the monetisation of knowledge is wrong and awful and disgusting and anyway to beat that should be celebrated and shared and used as widely as possible.

Happy learning! :)

[migurski]

Olivetti Programma 101 (1965)

Via https://toot.community/@openculture/112922379182436532

[sehir-isiklari]

İdeoloji Spektrumu: Bir şehirlinin Dünya İzmleri Rehberi

Ah, ideoloji. Siyasi söylemimizin, sosyal etkileşimlerimizin ve dürüst olalım, en sıkıcı kokteyl partisi sohbetlerinin hatlarını sonsuza dek şekillendiren o çekici ve anlaşılması zor canavar. Liberalizm ve muhafazakârlığın tanıdık tartışma partnerlerinden anarşizm ve transhümanizmin daha ezoterik saçaklarına kadar, ideolojik manzara umut, korku ve elbette ara sıra sağlıklı bir dozda varoluşsal dehşet iplikleriyle dokunmuş geniş ve canlı bir goblen.

Sekiz dakikalık dikkat süresi çağında, basit etiketlerin rahatlığında teselli aramak cazip geliyor. Yukarıda bahsi geçen makalede bağlantısı verilen video makalesi, 23 farklı inanç sistemini bir çırpıda tek bir yuduma sığdırarak övgüye değer bir iş yapıyor. Yine de, ideolojinin incelikli buketinin gerçekten tadına varmak için daha derin bir dalış gereklidir. Bunu, bir yüksük espresso içmekle, narenciye ve bitter çikolatanın ince notalarının tadını çıkararak bir French press üzerinde oyalanmak arasındaki fark gibi düşünün.

Entelektüel maceraperest New Yorklular için Andrew Heywood'un "Siyasi İdeolojiler: Bir Giriş" çökmekte olan bir ideolojik ��ölene davettir. Heywood, her bir izm'in temel ilkelerini ustalıkla inceleyerek tarihsel evrimlerinin ve entelektüel soylarının izini sürüyor. Geleneklere ve toplumsal düzene vurgu yapan muhafazakârlığın karmaşık yönlerini açığa çıkarırken, bireysel özgürlük ve sosyal adalete olan sarsılmaz inancıyla liberalizmin eşitlikçi özlemlerini irdeliyor.

Ancak ideolojik büfe burada bitmiyor. Heywood bizi Marksizm, anarşizm ve sendikalizmin çeşitli tatlarıyla sosyalizmin smorgasborduyla tanıştırıyor. Milliyetçiliğin baş döndürücü aroması, popülizmin sarhoş edici mayası ve faşizmin her daim biraz tedirgin edici tadı ile karşılaşıyoruz. Ve gerçekten avangart bir zevke sahip olanlar için, insanlık ve teknoloji arasındaki sınırların silikon ve sentetik sinapslardan oluşan bir pus içinde bulanıklaştığı bir transhümanizm eğlencesi bile var.

Elbette bu ideolojik smorgasbordda gezinmenin zorlukları da yok değil. Tıpkı tek malt viskinin notalarını ayırt etmenin eğitimli bir damak zevki gerektirmesi gibi, ideolojinin nüanslarını anlamak da eleştirel bir göz ve sağlıklı bir dozda şüphecilik gerektirir. Heywood'un kitabı değerli bir harita sunuyor, ancak ideolojik keşfin nihai yolculuğu her New Yorklunun kendi başına üstlenmesi gereken bir yolculuk.

Bu nedenle, bir dahaki sefere kendinizi hararetli bir siyasi tartışmanın içinde bulduğunuzda, bunun sadece bir slogandan daha fazlası olduğunu unutmayın. İdeolojinin zengin dokusunun tadını çıkarmak, izmler arasındaki ince farklılıkları takdir etmek ve önünüzde uzanan entelektüel ziyafetin tadını çıkarmak için bir dakikanızı ayırın. Sonuçta, siyasetin büyük oyununda, ideolojik manzarayı anlamak sadece bir seyirci sporu değildir; düşünceli, angaje ve evet, hatta biraz aykırı bir hayat yaşama sanatının ta kendisidir.

Şimdi izin verirseniz, duble espresso ve yıpranmış bir "Das Kapital" kopyasıyla randevum var. Ortada bir devrim var ve bunu hayatta kaçırmazdım.

Bu yazı OpenCulture sivil toplum örgütü makalesinden esinlenerek yazarımızın belirleği tasarıma göre yapay zeka aracılığıyla derlenmiş, sonuç yazının denetlenmesi yine yazar tarafından yapılmuştır. Open Culture : Every Political Ideology Explained in 8 Minutes

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

“Camus recognized emotions not as abstract principles, but as deeply connected to “the solidarity of our bodies, unity at the center of the mortal and suffering flesh.” The corrective to a shallow hedonism that might override our ethics is not a striving after philosophical notions of “excellence,” but another emotion, unhappiness, which we should also not be ashamed to feel. “No,” wrote Camus, “it is not humiliating to be unhappy.” The philosopher wrote these words to a hospitalized friend who was suffering physically, a condition, he admits, that is “sometimes humiliating.” But the more existential “suffering of being cannot be” a humiliation. “It is life,” and it forces us to see things we would rather not see.”

[babylon-crashing]

America’s First Drag Queen Was Also America’s First LGBTQ Activist and a Former Slave

Sometimes, when we are engaged as either participant in, or eyewitness to, the making of history, its easy to forget the history-makers who came earlier, who dug the trenches that allow our modern battles to be waged out in the open.

Take America’s first self-appointed “queen of drag” and pioneering LGBTQ activist, William Dorsey Swann, born into slavery around 1858.

30 years later, Swann faced down white officers busting a drag ball in a “quiet-looking house” on Washington, DC’s F street, near 12th ...

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

If you’re looking for free online courses, audio books, movies, textbooks, e-Books, foreign language resources, Mathematics, etc., check out Open Culture. Excellent materials there, including over 1300 free e-Books. 

[ruseg]

Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection https://t.co/0i8rh9Feaf pic.twitter.com/8rC0U50oRs

— Open Culture (@openculture) March 19, 2019

[thinkingplace195]

The Thirty-Seven Basic Dramatic Situations

The Thirty-Seven Basic Dramatic Situations

I found this from an open culture post and this pretty much sums them all up is all. Happy Situations 1. Rescue 2. Lost loved ones recovered 3. A miracle of God Pathetic Situations 4. Entreaty 5. Love’s obstacles 6. The rivalry between unequal 7. The rivalry between kinsmen 8. A mystery Inspiring Situations 9. Loving an enemy 10. The sacrifice of one’s self for an ideal 11. The…

[gmrstudios]

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2476 - David Bowie on Open Culture. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-2476-david.html #bowieforever❤️ #davidbowie #openculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CW13fQKJYaqxxz_MfxWzhGuz1hEfWlzWgy3Hbg0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[barrygaudy]

Tag a friend that needs to hear this #smokesandjokescomedy #openculture (at Delancey Street/Essex Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CROSjNCgTJv/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nsn997]

OPEN@La Traba (Madrid 2017)

[ecologiadigital]

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages https://t.co/jdtVa4skdQ http://pic.twitter.com/QXBOAAvTHG

— Open Culture (@openculture) December 17, 2017