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Email as a Crutch


Increasingly, I find that some students use email as a way to get my approval for all creative decisions they have to make for their assignments. Obviously, we didn't have email when I was in college, so I have taken the emails for granted as a logical technological development. But now I'm paying more attention and putting my foot down at this abuse of emails. Students need to think for themselves, make their own decisions, and be prepared to face consequences. I don't think this warrants any new policy on the syllabus, but rather a deliberateness in my response. Instead of approving particular decisions, I'm going to respond to these questions with one of my own: What decision are leaning towards and why? Also, why are you hesitating? I can then focus on whether or not they are thinking about the subject on the right terms, but still require them to come to their own conclusions.
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  1. DurandcecileOctober 19, 2012 at 9:17 AM



















    Dear
    Dustin, 


     


    I am a French
    student at Warwick University- MA in history and business of art and collecting.
    I have just read your bibliographic review on Art and contemporary culture and
    I am glad that you are using new technologies: how incredible it is to have the
    capacity to discuss subjects all over the world!


    I am starting
    my researches for my thesis based on this question: 


    How Damien Hirst
    managed to be exposed at Tate Modern during the Olympics when the world was
    watching London?


    I am interested
    in Hirst’s branding strategy but there are also many things I d like to
    highlight. To name a few: this incredible need of European society to believe
    in something new in crisis times and to build from zero (cf. Mai 1968), to
    believe in something that doesn’t have any foundation (the internet bubble
    2000) the globalization and the cultural democratization and its controversies,
    An art that reflects an society, the impact of Demand on the art, the political
    purpose of the art.


    Would you have
    some ideas of questions I could ask myself?


    Thank you very
    much,


    Best Wishes,


     


    Cécile




















     


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