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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Too Much or Too Little?
DESCRIPTION:For a long time\, information was scarce. Messages and letters were transmitted at the speed of human or equine legs. The materials upon which information was inscribed were either too heavy or too perishable to circulate. But by the end of the eighteenth century\, as machines took over\, not only the means of transmitting information but what counted as information had changed. Knowledge and experience now yielded to the objectivity of information\, grounded\, for example\, in the laws of probability. Strictly speaking\, there was no such thing as “too much information.” Today\, everything is a potential source of information: the living beings carrying genetic information\, the starlight carrying information about the distant origin of the universe\, the earth and skies stocked with sensors\, the complete libraries existing online. If we have a question for an expert on the other side of the world\, we receive an answer so promptly in real time that we do not even notice its delay. In his talk\, Kittler will consider the history of our relationship to information and how the abundance of information available today is both too little and too much. A reception will follow. \nWolf D. Kittler is Professor in the Germanic & Slavic Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include Western literature from Greek antiquity to the present\, philosophy\, art history\, history of science\, media technology\, and critical theory. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \nImage\, left side panel: Muse\, perhaps Clio\, reading a scroll (Attic red-figure lekythos\, Boeotia\, c. 430 BC)\, commons.wikimedia.org\nImage\, right side panel: Banksy\, Mobile Lovers\, 2014\, crop from photo by Daz Smith\, creativecommons.org
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-lecture-too-much-or-too-little/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Make a Poem Cry: Creative Writing from California’s Lancaster Prison
DESCRIPTION:Make a Poem Cry is an anthology from one of California’s high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodríguez. Rodríguez and formerly incarcerated writer Kenneth E. Hartman have selected work penned from 2016 to 2018. These are poems\, essays\, stories\, and more mined from the depths of familial\, racial\, and economic violence. They are imaginings for how to address trouble and crime without punishment\, dehumanization\, and violence in return. Here’s restorative/transformative justice in action. Here’s redemption in the flesh. Here are voices and viewpoints needed for a just and equitable world for all. In this TMI series event\, Hartman and Rodríguez will discuss how the project makes visible the experience of incarceration–about which there is too little information–as well as read selected works from the anthology. A reception will follow. \nKenneth E. Hartman was convicted of murder at nineteen and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. After he had served thirty-eight years\, former California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. commuted his sentence\, and Hartman was paroled in 2017. He’s presently a freelance writer who is also working as a development coordinator and prison programs specialist for a Los Angeles-area nonprofit. His 2009 memoir\, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars\, won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award. Hartman edited Too Cruel\, Not Unusual Enough\, a collection of prisoner writings about life sentences without the possibility of parole\, which won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Harper’s. \nLuis J. Rodríguez was the poet laureate of Los Angeles from 2014 to 2016. Across forty years\, he taught creative writing as well as conducted poetry readings\, lectures\, and healing circles in prisons\, juvenile lockups\, and jails throughout the United States\, Mexico\, Central America\, South America\, and Europe. He is the founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and cofounder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. Rodríguez is the author of sixteen books of poetry\, children’s literature\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, including the best-selling memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-make-a-poem-cry-creative-writing-from-californias-lancaster-prison/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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