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Created: October 15, 2004
Latest Update: October 15, 2004
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Dear Habermas, a Social Philosophy and Social Justice Journal
How Community Works Across the Internet with Ontological Hope,
by Aidan Acone-Chavez and jeanne
Volume 21, Issue Number 7, Week of October 10, 2004.- The painting for this week was the editor's addition of the form of her cat to the drawing young Aidan had made of that very cat the week before. Aidan is the grandson of one of our students, and the beloved cat died that week. The Journal was a place for everyone to share in the loss of the cat whose many antics had once graced our pages. The Internet is helping us create a community that stays in touch in both virtual and real lives. (Ontological hope is the hope that we as humans can preserve together those qualities, such as loving and sharing that make us uniquely human.
How Community Works Across the Internet, by Aidan Acone-Chavez
Volume 21, Issue Number 6, Week of October 3, 2004.- We had already seen the community effect starting to take place when communication went from grandmother to mother and grandchild and back to the web site. Now we all know Aidan, who has since visited our classes and will take part in our end-of-semester Art Exhibit, as he did last year. Example of building bridges between the academy and the community.
Experimental Mexican Art from article by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Volume 21, Issue Number 5, Week of September 26, 2004.- Photo of striking experimental performance art in the new bello glossy art magazine. This photo elicited impassioned discussions about the complexities of social issues on war and peace. Recognizing the imagery of a possibly real body trussed up in cloth that represents contrasting cultures, struggles for freedom, fear of terror and torture shocked us all into animated discussion.
Magic Numbers Disaster and Governance Discourse
Volume 21, Issue Number 4, Week of September 19, 2004.- The painting for this week represents the chaos when we tried to enroll 70 students into a field work class for our growing academic-community bridge. There were rules and rules and more rules, and we were all hopelessly confused and not enrolled. So we sat down and applied our own governance discourse, gathered information, followed all the appropriate administrative steps, and were all enrolled together, no late fees. Wonderful chance to watch the process of governance and social justice work relatively smoothly and successfully.
The steps to Public Discourse
Volume 21, Issue Number 3, Week of September 12, 2004.- This week's topic describes the steps to public discourse by guiding you across our web site. When was the last time you talked about major social issues of justice and equality with your family, your friends? The site encourages you to do so, invites you to share with us, whether you're in the academy or the community, and keeps us aware of the really important stuff.
Naked Space: The Intersection of Illocutionary and Public Discourse
Volume 21, Issue Number 2, Week of September 5, 2004.- This week's painting offers a peek at what our classes are like, gathered round a circle in which all are respected, all share their feelings and information on social issues and social justice, and where our habits tend to make us line chairs up against the walls until we grow more used to this uncommon forum. Once we learn how well talking and listening to each other works, lots of those chairs against the walls end up empty. We've jumped into the center Naked Space of Safety and Mutual Respect and are oblivious to the once rigid classroom. We're busy learning to understand one another. (Called technically Illocutionary Understanding - talking to one another just to reach out and accept each other as humans who share a wonderful social need for support, caring, mutual understanding.)
The "Social Issues Agenda" in the 2004 Presidential Elections
Volume 21, Issue Number 1, Week of August 29, 2004.- In this first week of the semester we recognized our commitment to remembering our social justice history, telling the stories to those for whom it is only history, and bringing back some of the iconology and stories that remind us of the struggle for Civil Rights. This is a New York Times photo of the Woolworth Lunch counter at which many of the "sit-ins" of the Civil Rights Movement took place. Some of us were there. Cornell West reminds us that one of the most important contributions we can make today is tell the stories to our young people, so that none of us will ever forget, and we can move on effectively to greater justice and equality.
