self

habitual construction of imagination

so, there’s some space here..

iambarr | October 30, 2008

and i guess that means i should fill it up with words. going to take me a little while to get back into the swing of it all, i think. i was doing so well, and.. well, yeah.. but, seriously, i think its time to get back into the swing of it. still don’t know [...]

we don’t really exist.

iambarr | October 13, 2008

really, i looked into it. first i googled you. i asked jeeves about me. i yahood her. then i went to the library and look for us on microfiche. there is no byline to describe us. the new york times doesn’t mention us in its archives. has zogby verified your existence? gallup? were you surveyed [...]

szwed – the ethnography of literacy

iambarr | October 10, 2008

literacy is a necessity of modernity, but suffering a crisis – massive failures shift in the world’s reading habits in u.s. – novel is in declineplays and poetry at almost zero, non-fic ascending we do not know what literacy is what are reading and writing for? social meaning of literacy ordinary uses of literacy by [...]

akinnaso – literacy & individual consciousness

iambarr | October 3, 2008

individual consciousness not a mental state, a dynamic process involves: internalization & social reality if viewed as a mental state, ignoring all the cultural, interactive processes that shape consciousness personal literacy history – ajugunle-idanre, nigeria community embraced literacy, but non-literate literacy more than reading writing – ways of thinking, perceiving characterizes a group of individuals [...]