Evoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]

This infographic illustrates the PPJ Formative Peer Review process from start to finish.

A look at the role Democrats played in the formation of Philadelphia’s (now defunct!) School Reform Commission.

How do we learn the link between speech and money? What is the process of formation that
legitimates the logic whereby speech is equivalent to money? What are the experiences, events, and subjectivities
that render the connection between currency and speaking/listening intuitive? As educators and researchers,
what do we do and say to shore up…[Read more]

A short note describing the difficulties that surround the definition of “art.”

Computational analysis of the potential historical professional networks inferred from surviving print impressions offers novel insight into the evolution of early modern artistic printmaking in Europe. This analysis traces a longue durée print production history that examines the changing ways in which different regional printmaking communities…[Read more]

Evidence from researches emanating from Nigeria in the field of mathematics education has revealed an over-reliance on broad methods of empirical inquiry. There seem to be a general stereotypical restriction on approaches to conducting investigation across the noble discipline, thereby stifling the spirit of innovation, open-mindedness and…[Read more]

These are catalogue entries for the following works: Francisco de Zurbaran, Veronica Veil, from the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Collection Ferdinand Bol, Portrait of Sir John Hebdon, from the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Collection

Para un niño, la capacidad de relacionarse con el entorno resulta vital para un correcto autoconocimiento y desarrollo individual. Para ello debe recurrir a una realidad primordial, un modelo comunicativo que tenga carácter referencial en su vida como la figura de los padres. Es en ellos en los que podemos hallar un primer estadio prefilosófico –…[Read more]

This draft handout accompanied in-class discussion and instruction. There are two key objectives: 1) to model the practices of critical note taking, including close reading, connection making, and question asking; and 2) to document the first assigned reading from Becky Chambers’ A Closed and Common Orbit. This handout covers the first three c…[Read more]

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

As one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]

As one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]

As one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]

Contemplates the exclusion of illustrators from art theory; critiques Harold Rosenberg’s position in light of his own work in the culture industries; matches illustrator Robert Weaver’s arguments with Rosenberg’s in a posthumous debate.

Contemplates the exclusion of illustrators from art theory; critiques Harold Rosenberg’s position in light of his own work in the culture industries; matches illustrator Robert Weaver’s arguments with Rosenberg’s in a posthumous debate.