Word: interactionalism
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...want to discuss this matter.And perhaps it is this circumstance that offers a faint idea of the social good that reading does. It acculturates an individual to discourse. To read fiction is to be exposed to a polyphony of voices, to engage with a multitude of perspectives, to imaginatively interact with places and people beyond one’s lived experience. In short (to put it reductively and to make a reductive argument in response to what I see as your own), reading equips its practitioner with the tools of democracy: a sense of curiosity, an ability to imagine beyond...
...Societal mores of compassion advocate human understanding in the face of seriously bad behavior; they tell us that people are complicated, that we should delve beneath the surface of society’s most troubled and attempt to connect. But for most people, the only way to interact with such a terrifying person is superficial at best.Documentary filmmaking provides the opportunity to truly deliver someone else’s reality, even if that person is as seemingly insane as Mike Tyson. James Toback ’66 is particularly attuned to this power. After Harvard, he went on to become...
...surprise that Biggers has been called a sculptor, a performance artist, a video artist, and an installation artist—or that his art has been qualified as both Dada and post-minimalist. His work consciously eludes labels. It is at once formal and multidisciplinary, static and interactive. “I am interested in making stuff that I, and other people, can’t categorize,” he says. And as Biggers engages the viewer with innovative forms, he asks them to consider the very basis with which they understand his art.Born in Los Angeles...
...with the occasional but rare exception. Most journalists are shepherded by a guide wherever they go, which is usually to view monuments of Kim Jong il and his deceased dad. They are told to shy away from asking citizens political questions. While residents of Pyongyang are less afraid to interact with foreigners than, say, a decade ago, they "won't speak to journalists without permission," says Lankov. Even at the joint South and North Korean industrial complex at Kaesong, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, journalists don't really expect to land interviews with regular North Koreans, says Voice...
...Black community, according to the BLSA’s Web site. Brigid K. Ndege ’10, a Harvard Law School student and BLSA member, said she attended the event to learn about topics that aren’t brought up on a daily basis and also to interact with a larger community. Similarly, freelance business consultant Melanie Morris, a Boston resident, said she was there to network and to meet people of color who share her interests and goals. One of the speeches that attendees, including Morris, looked forward to the most was Nagin’s keynote...