Comments on: Reading and the Material World http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/04/20/reading-and-the-material-world/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:26:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Nancy http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/04/20/reading-and-the-material-world/#comment-300 Fri, 11 May 2012 05:03:33 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5472#comment-300 Thanks for helping me stretch my thinking. I’d love to subscribe to the RSS feed, but the link doesn’t work.

]]> By: Emily, Chowan University http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/04/20/reading-and-the-material-world/#comment-299 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:06:14 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5472#comment-299 That’s one of the things that I’ve been trying to impress upon my students, as well. We live in a material world — and it affects us in ways that we often don’t consider. Certainly, I try to my students in the theory class to think about their own relationship to things like the modes of production.

And it’s also something we’re trying to teach the students in the critical thinking program. Part of what we hope that they come away with is the ability to be intelligent and critical consumers of our own culture.

]]> By: Carl Isaacson, Bethany College http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/04/20/reading-and-the-material-world/#comment-298 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:26:09 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5472#comment-298 One of things I do in the persuasion course is take them to WalMart, Target and the Mall. Material culture isn’t just about history. It’s also about the ways we are persuaded to see normality. And how position can equal sales. But that’s another story.

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