Tag: epistemic justice
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Reading the World: Conspiratorialism, Schismogenesis, and Epistemic Injustice
Inspired by Trevor Aleo’s work, I’ve been reading up on Paulo Freire’s “reading the world”, a concept I like a lot. I feel like Stimpunks work around reframing, epistemic justice, scientism, lateral reading, and critical thinking is much about teaching how to read the world. Reading the world is especially important in our multimedia disinformation…
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The Road to Neuronormative Domination: Thorndike won, Dewey lost. Skinner won, Papert lost.
Thorndike won, and Dewey lost. I don’t think you can understand the history of education technology without realizing this either. And I’d propose an addendum to this too: you cannot understand the history of education technology in the United States during the twentieth century – and on into the twenty-first – unless you realize that Seymour…
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Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains begets epistemic justice and created serendipity.
This experimental piece leads with a very dense passage that uses specialist language from multiple semiotic domains. Terms are linked to our glossary. We fed the passage with links to AI several times and blended the output, resulting in an “unpacked” plain language version. The Passage Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains…
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Stimpunks Invites You to Join Us Online at the Conference to Restore Humanity 2023 on July 24th
We were at last year’s Conference to Restore Humanity and are attending again this year. This online conference includes us like no other. Now we have the opportunity and understanding to move from emergency pandemic remote school and its pantomime of learning to purposefully designed online education spaces that are accessible, sustainable, and representative of the communities…
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Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #3: Mental Health and Epistemic Justice
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We dedicate this issue to epistemic justice, something sorely missing in the treatment of neurodivergent and disabled people’s mental health. Negative stereotypes stifle voices and useful tools. Lack of epistemic justice proliferates harm.
