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The Information Sage A publication of Mass Humanities Fall 2011 The Information Sage In This Issue Mass Humanities Executive Director David Tebaldi talks to our annual symposium panelist and Internet writer Virginia Heffernan on just where the rabbit hole of the Web is taking us. Mass Humanities News page 2 David Tebaldi: You have a Ph.D. in English carries something like eye contact, recognition and literature from Harvard. What was your area a smile—humanness—which is, paradoxically, what The Cuba Seminars of specialization? Were you contem- people most fervently traffic in within the shimmer- page 4 plating an academic career at ing cyberworld of the Internet.” In what ways are that time? social media more “human” than more traditional Recent Grants page 5 forms of communication? Virginia Heffernan: Upcoming Events My dissertation is on VH: I’m not sure what’s true of all social media, but and Exhibits American naturalist fiction; it’s true that you never know where humanness can page 6 it used a methodology achieve value. Manual slips of needles on records, that was briefly, thrillingly or dust on vinyl, are what some audiophiles identify FAIR Expansion page 7 known as the New Economic with “warmth” and contribute to the impression Criticism. I tried to discover that vinyl is more human than .mp3 technology. how the dynamics of price Cell phone calls, to me, mangle and inhibit hu- inflation inform novels writ- man voices and silences so violently that they ten in boom/bust times. are interesting only insofar as they’re efficient… I absolutely thought I’d unlike analog calls, which—at least to teenagers be an academic. and sweethearts—used to be filled with breath and Annual Fall Symposium I did, though, timbre and the exhalation of smoke and suspense. take a year off Humanness. I asked Nicholson Baker not long and worked as ago, since he writes about sex and technology, if he Cyberspace and Civic Space a fact-checker at thought there was beauty and range to sexting, and The New Yorker. he told me there absolutely is. The Influence of the Internet on Our Democracy Even after I went back to Harvard, DT: Critiques of digital media seem to fall into two This year, Mass Humanities takes on the I kept working camps: utopian and dystopian, with the dystopians World Wide Web for its eighth annual public as a journalist to far outnumbering the utopians. What do you think symposium, held on Saturday, November 19, supplement my about this? Is it just that disaster stories sell so at Boston College. teaching fellowship, much better than feel-good stories? and then to subsi- Afterward, our annual benefit dinner will feature dize my dissertation VH: There’s a great deal of suffering and anxiety Virginia Heffernan as the featured speaker. writing. around the question of what will happen to analog Heffernan, who began writing for The New totems (like books) as well as predigital jobs (like York Times in 2003, is currently the Internet DT: In a recent photo editors). These artifacts and jobs defined our columnist for its Sunday Magazine. As she column about emotional and intellectual lives as well as our liveli- states in her forthcoming book, to be titled, Facebook that seems hoods. Sometimes digitization feels like we’re hav- Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet: to have generated ing our hearts and brains transplanted, and we’re “Tentatively, avidly or kicking and scream- a robust response losing our jobs at the same time. Zombie movies ing, nearly two billion of us have taken up from readers, you are enjoying a renaissance. No wonder there are residence on the Internet, and we’ve adjusted make an interesting dystopian visions around. I feel that acutely. And to its idiosyncratic ways...This transformation observation: “the this pain is not going to pass, any more than the of everyday life includes moments of magic, Facebook greeting pain involved in other self-styled revolutions passed. and an unavoidable experience of profound loss.” Continued on page 3 For more information, see page 8 Mass Humanities News MaSS HuMaNITIeS 66 Bridge Street Northampton, MA 01060 tel (413) 584-8440 fax (413) 584-8454 Welcome to Four New Board Members www.masshumanities.org With a hearty welcome to those listed below also comes a pang of loss, as we bid fond farewells to STaFF several outstanding individuals who are dedicated to the public humanities in Massachusetts: Ricardo David Tebaldi Barreto, recently retired director of the Urban Arts Institute; Madelaine Márquez of Hampshire College; exeCuTIve DIreCTor Bhasker Natarajan of Liberty Mutual; Thomas Trimarco of O’Neill and Associates, who has joined the [email protected] Mass Humanities Advisory Board; novelist John Sedgwick; and Keith Vezeau of the National Guard Pleun Bouricius Museum and Archives. aSSISTaNT DIreCTor [email protected] elliott Bostwick Davis is John leila W. Kinney is Executive Abaigeal Duda Moors Cabot Chair of the Art Director of Arts Initiatives at DevelopMeNT aSSISTaNT [email protected] of the Americas Department the Massachusetts Institute of at the Museum of Fine Arts, Technology in the Office of Deepika Fernandes FISCal oFFICer where she oversees the Mu- the Provost. She works with [email protected] seum’s extensive collection of art the List Visual Arts Center, the from North, Central, and South MIT Museum, the Creative Anne Rogers SySTeMS MaNager America, including one of the world’s pre-eminent Arts Council and the Council for the Arts to [email protected] collections of American paintings, decorative advance the arts agenda at MIT in the areas of Rose Sackey-Milligan arts, and sculpture. Before coming to the MFA, at strategic planning, communications, resource prograM oFFICer the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, development, and cross-school collaborations, [email protected] Elliot was responsible for American, British, and particularly with the School of Humanities, Arts, John Sieracki contemporary art in the Department of Drawings and Social Sciences and the School of Architec- DIreCTor oF DevelopMeNT and Prints, curating numerous exhibitions ranging ture and Planning. She serves on the Advisory aND CoMMuNICaTIoNS eDITor oF mass humanities from Winslow Homer and Mary Cassatt to W.P.A. Committees of the List Visual Arts Center, the [email protected] Color Prints and the installations of baseball cards MIT Museum, and the Catalyst Collaborative at Brendan Tapley from the Burdick Collection. In 1999, Elliot joined MIT. Leila is an art historian and first joined the CoMMuNICaTIoNS oFFICer the American Paintings and Sculpture Department faculty at MIT in the History, Theory, and Criti- [email protected] to complete work on “Art and the Empire City: cism section of the Department of Architecture, Melissa Wheaton New York, 1825-1861.” The accompanying cata- where she specialized in 19th- and 20th-century aDMINISTraTIve aSSISTaNT aND logue, of which she was a co-author, was selected French Art with an emphasis on media in transi- graNTS aDMINISTraTor [email protected] by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 tion, arts institutions, and artists engaged with most important books published in the year 2000. modernism and mass culture. Hayley Wood SeNIor prograM oFFICer Elliot is a trustee of the North Bennet Street School [email protected] in Boston and a councilor for the American Anti- Kathleen C. Stone is a quarian Society. lawyer focusing on business Mass Humanities promotes the use of history, literature, philosophy, and the and commercial litigation. other humanities disciplines to deepen ronald B. Hertel is Managing Formerly a partner in a our understanding of the issues of the day, strengthen our sense of common Director-Investments of the Hertel large law firm and in-house purpose, and enrich individual and & Konish Wealth Management counsel in a bank subsid- community life. We take the humani- ties out of the classroom and into the Group at Wells Fargo Advi- iary, she now maintains community. sors. He is a Certified Financial a solo practice. She has taught courses on Mass Humanities, a private, nonprofit, Planner and a Certified Invest- American law in several countries—Slovenia, educational organization, receives fund- ment Management Analyst. Bulgaria and the Czech Republic—with the ing from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Massachusetts His business focuses on individual family wealth goal of fostering respect for the rule of law Cultural Council, a state agency; and management services, corporate 401k plans, and in all societies and increasing foreign under- private sources. not-for-profit organizations. He was named one of standing of the American system. She is a Boston Magazine’s 2006 Top 20 Advisors and one hearing officer for the Board of Bar Overseers, of the top-ranked advisors in America by Research the regulatory body for Massachusetts law- Magazine in 2005. A graduate of the University of yers. Kathleen also serves as a trustee of the Vermont, Ron was inducted into UVM’s Athletic Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, a Hall of Fame, served as co-chair on the Alumni private two-year college in Boston. She is the Fund 2002-2003, and was awarded the UVM immediate past president of The Boston Club, Follow us on distinguished Service Award in 2004. He is past and previously was elected to the Council of president of the Friends of the Winchester Public the Boston Bar Association where she also Twitter and Library and the Winchester Jaycees. co-chaired the Solo and Small Firm Section. Facebook! 2 The Information Sage, continued from page 1 “. .. the Internet I’m not in either camp. But I would advise everyone to do as yogis Kids should be shown how tell us and “sit with our feelings.” If digitization frightens or bores to master the digital world makes a good case you, a reaction that seems more meaningful might lie in these that’s around them and for itself as a place practices: in the revival of vinyl and papermaking, in DIY culture, then be given the tools to in the new run on live music, in foodie culture.
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