User:czar/vita

Last updated April 2019 I edit broadly on topics in the arts, humanities, and education, some topics by interest and others by circumstance. What follows is a general, brief introduction to my work, for those curious. I have contributed over 1100 print-equivalent pages of content to Wikipedia and the public domain since 2013. My current projects include: Editions of the Venice Biennale Biographies of contemporary women artists from Africa History and historiography of anarchism passed basic review rated among Wikipedia's best articles written or re-written from scratch bibliographic work (references) collaboration in draft awaiting review Smithsonian National Museum of African Art collaboration since 2016 1:54, contemporary African art fair held annually in London and New York Angolan pavilion, national pavilion at the Venice Biennale Angola Dak'Art, contemporary art biennial held in Dakar, known for pan-Africanism Senegal Edson Chagas, photographer based in Luanda Angola Egyptian pavilion, national pavilion at the Venice Biennale Egypt Emeka Ogboh, sound artist based in Lagos Nigeria Hamidou Maiga, Malian studio photographer among the region's pioneers in the craft during the postcolonial period Mali Idia masks, ivory, ritual masks, the most famous masterpieces from the Benin Empire, iconic of the looting of Benin and the campaign for restitution Benin Judith Kanakuze, Rwandan politician and women's rights activist Rwanda Nadia Kaabi-Linke, conceptual artist based in Berlin Tunisia Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, art historian and curator at Dartmouth Nigeria books on education: history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology Compulsory Miseducation (1964), critique of American public schools by Paul Goodman The Demands of Liberal Education (1999), Meira Levinson's liberal political theory of children's education to fit the mutual needs of the state and its diverse citizenry Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn (2001), first full biography of philosopher, university admin, and free speech advocate Alexander Meiklejohn Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited (1999), biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his associated normal school for freedmen, the Hampton Institute Fifty Years of Freedom (1972), intellectual biography of the British pedagogue A. S. Neill, traces how Homer Lane, Wilhelm Reich, Sigmund Freud and others influenced Neill as he developed the "Summerhill idea" behind his Summerhill School God's Choice (1986), a late 1970s, 18-month ethnographic study of a Baptist fundamentalist day school in Illinois that teaches God's will as singular truth and subordination before God Stolen Childhood (1995), history of nineteenth century slave children in America, it began the scholarship of slave childhood as the first book on the subject Summerhill (book) (1960), Summerhill School headmaster A. S. Neill explains his English boarding school, known for introducing his ideas to the American public more  Centuries of Childhood (1960), Philippe Ariès's best-known history of childhood, known for its now-refuted argument that the concept of "childhood" is a modern development  •  Medieval Children (2001), history of English children throughout the Middle Ages, directly refutes Ariès's thesis  •  Education for Extinction (1995)  •  The Elusive Ideal  •  The Emergence of the American University  •  The End of College  •  Excellent Sheep  •  Huck's Raft  •  The Importance of Being Little  •  The Modern School Movement (book)  •  Official Knowledge  •  The Strike That Changed New York, on the Oceanhill-Brownsville strike  •  The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Rancière on the role of the teacher and individual towards individual liberation  •  The Hemlock Cup  •  The Golden Passport  •  The Transformation of the School  •  Tinkering toward Utopia  •  An Elusive Science  •  The End of American Childhood  •  The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 books on anarchism Bibliographies for some 40-odd books on and related to contemporary anarchism (Paul Avrich, David Graeber, Paul Goodman, etc.) e.g. Avrich:  The Russian Anarchists (1967)   •  Kronstadt, 1921 (1970)  •    Russian Rebels, 1600–1800 (1972)  •    The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (1973)  •    An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre (1978)  •    The Modern School Movement (book) (1980)  •    The Haymarket Tragedy (1984)  •    Anarchist Portraits (1988)  •    Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (1991)  •    Anarchist Voices (1995)  •    Sasha and Emma (2012) Graeber:  The Utopia of Rules Histories  The Anarchists (book) (1964),  Partisans of Freedom (1976)  The American as Anarchist,  The Anarchist Prince,  For Anarchism,  The Haymarket Conspiracy,  Rebel Alliances,  Two Cheers for Anarchism,  Weapons of the Weak  free school movement Schools run by democratic meeting:  Albany Free School and  Brooklyn Free School Books:  A. S. Neill's  Summerhill School and by  Paul Goodman mentioned above. Also  The Lives of Children  •    Our Children Are Dying Related:  Eight-Year Study  Rare Replay, 32-article collaboration on the 2015 compilation of Rare and Ultimate releases Sabreman series:  Sabre Wulf,  Underwurlde, and  Knight Lore (all 1984) And others:  Blast Corps (1997),  Killer Instinct Gold (1996),  Battletoads Arcade (1994),  Kameo (2005),  Slalom (1986),  Cobra Triangle (1989),  R.C. Pro-Am II (1992), the slogs  Viva Piñata (2006) +  Trouble in Paradise (2008) ( series), and the cherry on top,  Rare Replay (2015). Also see  Stamper brothers, the founders.  indie game media: over 1,500 files released by request under free use license, including:  Fez (2012), a platformer in which the player rotates between the four 2D sides of a 3D cube, known as an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" for its  protracted development and outspoken creator,  Phil Fish (also influenced  Monument Valley and  Secrets of Rætikon) works by game artist and designer  Greg Wohlwend, best known for  Threes (2014),  Ridiculous Fishing (2013), and  TumbleSeed (2017), but also  Puzzlejuice (2012, with  Asher Vollmer),  Solipskier (2010),  Gasketball (2012), and  TouchTone (2015) as  Mikengreg, and  Hundreds (video game) (2013)  Videoball (2016),  Tim Rogers's "one-button StarCraft" eSport of basic geometry and bright colors. See also  Action Button Entertainment and  Ziggurat (2012). more  Absolver (2017)  •  Alto's Adventure (2015)  •  Blek (2013)  •  Nidhogg (2014) ( dev,  sequel)  •  Secrets of Rætikon (2014)  •  Rymdkapsel (2013)  •  SpellTower (2013) by  Zach Gage  •  Thralled  •  TowerFall (2013)  •  Vainglory (2014)  •  Windosill (2009) addt'l expansions by topic  Leonard's Bakery, Honolulu bakery, popularized the malasada  Libor Michálek (b. 1968), Czech economist and whistleblower, the first Pirate Party candidate elected to national office, my first reviewed article  Patio 29, a potter's field burial ground within Chile's capital General Cemetery, used for burying victims of Pinochet's 1973 military coup, my second reviewed article  Jura Federation, the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the First International during the anti-statist split from the organization  Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan revolutionary, militant anarchist whose unpopular execution under Spain's Franco regime made him a cause célèbre for Catalan autonomists and anarchists  Paul Avrich, historian of anarchism  Lillian Harman (1869–1929), American sex radical feminist  Autonomous social center, community centers in which non-authoritarians enact principles of mutual aid  Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography, a book-length biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, the author's magnum opus education  Every Student Succeeds Act, American national public education policy since 2015  •  National Council on Teacher Quality, a D.C. think tank that lambasted American teacher prep programs in a 2013 report  •  Progressive Education Association, group dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American public schools (1919–1955)  •  Henry Caldwell Cook, British educator whose 1917 magnum opus The Play Way contended that youth study through play  •  Alice Davis Menken, known for work with female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquency  •  Algo Henderson, president of Antioch College credited with their model of shared governance  •  History of Education Society, professional organization for American historians of education, founded in 1960  •  Carl Kaestle, historian of education, author of  Pillars of the Republic, the standard-bearer history of America's common schools  •  Herbartianism, educational movement based on German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart's philosophy, influential on American school pedagogy in the late 1800s  •  Lorenzo Luzuriaga, brought John Dewey to Argentina  •  John Davis Pierce, America's first state (Michigan's) superintendent of public schools  •  Arnold Ross, mathematician who founded a noted number theory summer program for talented high school students, one of my first subjects  • Indian school chain  Shemrock and Shemford  •  University of Wisconsin Experimental College, Meiklejohn's great books program in the late 1920s  • its critic, administrator  George Sellery  • its supporter, Wisconsin president (1925–1937)  Glenn Frank  •  John Hanson Twombly, Wisconsin president (1871–1874) and co-ed advocate  •  Teaching Assistants Association, Wisconsin's graduate student labor union, nation's first  •  Helen C. White, Wisconsin English prof and first woman to lead the AAUP  •  Sifting and winnowing, metaphor for the academic pursuit of truth at Wisconsin  •  Sara Goldrick-Rab, sociologist of education  •   new Yale residential colleges, Franklin and Murray art  Artsy  •  Cheryl Donegan, American conceptual and video artist  •  Quentin Jones  •  Marta Kuzma  •  Christine Macel  •  Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new modern art gallery  •  Cai Guo-Qiang § Gehry house  •  Adrian Piper, American conceptual artist  •  Punta della Dogana, Venetian contemporary art museum  •  Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, major Latin American art show in Southern California, 2017–2018  • books  Better Living Through Criticism,  The Craftsman intellectual history  Age of Fracture  •    The Age of the Crisis of Man  •    American Nietzsche  •    Backroads Pragmatists  •    The Black Atlantic  •    Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer  •    Forgotten Prophet  •    History's Memory  •    I Am Dynamite!  •   Georg Iggers  •    Late Modernism (book)  •    No Place of Grace  •    Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess  •    Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer  •    This Long Pursuit  •    Word by Word  •    A World Not to Come  •   internet  Kickstarter headquarters  Blob emoji services  Apple Music,  Apple Pay,  Geofeedia,  Google Inbox,  Google Photos,  iTunes Radio,  Polymail, execs  Bozoma Saint John,  Terry Myerson Vox Media properties  Polygon,  Recode,  The Verge,  Vox  18F, digital services for the U.S. federal government  Microsoft and open source lit  Di Yunge, the first major literary movement of Yiddish poets in America (early 20th c.)  •  Estadio Chile (poem) (also the poet's wife,  Joan Jara)  •  My Struggle (Knausgård novels) music  Jamie Stewart of  Xiu Xiu's  Nina (2013) and  Angel Guts, related:  Greg Saunier  La Gatta Cenerentola (1976), an Italian musical based on Basile's Cinderella fable  Breakcore,  Nervous Cop,  Electric Eden politics & society Jewish anarchists  Marie Goldsmith,  Abba Gordin (but not  his father, the rebbe) The leak-related  Panama Papers and  Sarah Harrison (journalist)  Hillary Victory Fund, joint fundraising committee for the 2016 Hillary campaign  Kim dynasty (North Korea), the three-generation lineage of North Korean leaders  Narin Afrin, Kurdish leader in the 2014–2015 Kobanî siege  Tampon tax, when feminine hygiene products used to absorb menstrual flow are not tax exempt alongside similar medical and sexual health products  Weinstein effect, late 2017 global wave of sexual misconduct allegations following the Weinstein case  Susan Fowler, software engineer whose bellwether story changed how Silicon Valley treats sexual harassment  Diamond Tooth Lil, early 20th c. American cultural icon of wealth and libertine burlesque, ✝ Allen3  Another Day in the Death of America (2016)  •  Between the World and Me (2015)  •  Bro (subculture)  •  Hillbilly Elegy (2016)  •  The Mind at Work (2004)  •  You Could Look It Up (2016)  •  Distinction science  Muthu Alagappan (b. c. 1990), med student known for his professional basketball analytics  Gloria Long Anderson (b. 1938), chemistry prof known for studies of fluorine-19 and solid rocket propellants  Blanche Wheeler Williams (1870–1936), archaeologist involved in the ancient Minoan discovery at Gournia  Josiah Zayner (b. c. 1982), biohacker known for his crowdfunded campaign to provide genetic engineering kits to the general public  Triboniophorus aff. graeffei, hot pink land slug  The Master Algorithm,  Superforecasting games  Mother series –  Mother (1989)  •  EarthBound (1994) ( fandom  •  Marcus Lindblom)  •  Mother 3 (2003) ( development  •  fan translation) 80s –  Telengard (1982)  •  Gumball (1983)  •  The Lost Levels (1986)  •  Super Mario Land (1989) 90s –  Menacer (1992)  •  Kirby's Block Ball (1995)  •  Yoshi's Island (1995)  •  Mischief Makers (1997)  Bennett Foddy, a moral philosopher-cum-NYU Game Center professor  Doomfist, Overwatch character introduced in 2017, design based on a powerful, prosthetic gauntlet  Geguri, a professional Overwatch player who received international attention for the precision of her computer mouse movements  Peter Molydeux, parody of game designer Peter Molyneux  Read-Only Memory (publisher), publisher of art books on topics of video game history and culture  Square Enix Montreal –  Hitman: Sniper (2015)  •  Lara Croft Go (2015)  •  Deus Ex Go (2016) Saints Row –  Saints Row 2 (mobile)  •  Saints Row: The Third ( downloadable content)  •  Saints Row IV ( Enter the Dominatrix)  Cuphead  •  Deathrow  •  Development of Deus Ex  •  Deus Ex: Mankind Divided  •  Donkey Kong high score competition  •  The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project  •  Nina Freeman  •  Glossary of video game terms  •  Fullbright (company)  •  Hohokum  •  Emily Kaldwin  •  Microconsole  •  Nintendo arcade machines  •  Titanfall  •  Undead Nightmare