Announcements

• Class next week is on Tuesday and Wednesday!
• “Therefore” — use “suggests” instead
• This week: a talk @ NYU by the author of “A New Theory of Race”
• Commas inside quote marks
• Reminder about disruptive technologies in the context of the major Industrial Revolutions. For both your discussions and your papers, “technology” should be a specific invention(s).

Agenda

• Please upload your Synthesis/Planning diagram to this folder. I will check it during the Timed Exercise. 
• News (20)
• Timed Exercise (25)
  • Upcoming exercises will have 1 question on the reading, and 1 question to help you with progress on preparing the midterm.
  • The midterm-related question won’t be that intense so as to give you more thinking time…
  • And there won’t be a bonus question.
• Midterm Planning (30)
  • Session #8’s Midterm Planning agenda is now under the D&T menu.
  • Templates: I’ll demo in this template, but I set up a doc for each of you. Please check that your doc has proper edit access. I will ONLY check these docs to grade your midterms.
  • Midterm Grade Sheet
  • Cultural Competence checklist – see “D&T Project Resources” in the Diversity menu.
• Discussion (35)

Assignment

• Please read:
  • This discussion of “Technology” from Keywords for American Cultural Studies. 
  • This discussion of “disruptive innovation” from Harvard Business Review.
• NEWS: Add a News Item to the 10/9 tab.
• Work on your midterm. We will check in during 1-on-1 sessions on Wednesday. If you haven’t already, please select
  • the literary work(s) you’ll research
  • the protected identity(s) you’ll focus on, and be able to explain such identities in relation to your positionality
  • the disruptive technology you’ll focus on — and using today’s assigned readings, be prepared to explain why this technology was socioeconomically disruptive
  • the critical theory you will use to tie everything together