It’s a spectrum of color that makes light possible. Each color operates at its own wavelength to illuminate a dark space, the face of the moon or the road ahead. Once a week, Politicolor contributors will answer two simple questions to share the objects of their own mental wavelengths that inform their work as teachers, [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
The Not So Radical American
Watching William Gibson’s “No Maps for These Territories,” I found one brief moment in the film that resonated with a million other moments in time. The famous science fiction author wanted to describe his work and to explain why he has never seen himself as a visionary. He said we live in an incomprehensible present [...]
Leader + Follower = A Movement
Each in his own turn, to be ruled and to rule. In Washington today, a group of attendees at the Gov 2.0 Expo considered how to best build online communities to foster citizen engagement. The presentation was introduced by this video of a dancing guy. He was just a weird guy dancing by himself until [...]
Exploring the Orange Box
It’s been almost three years since the National Academy (’07 in da house!), so I’m not sure whether Will and Co. have progressed with the orange box or not. Last I knew, there wasn’t any great philosopher linked to that great conundrum called civilization. The word alone conjures the pulse of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” or [...]
