How Precedents Forge Your Path With Hollis Robbins

Interested in KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION or how humanities can help us understand the present? Then this episode is for you! In today’s chapter, Dean of Arts and Humanities Hollis Robbins joins us to talk about the extraordinary way in which she views the world. We dive deep into how to scaffold students' learning, how knowledge production works, and how the humanities of the 19th century can inform the present and the future of technology. Furthermore Hollis shares her thoughts about organizational systems, how society systematizes information, frameworks for organizing knowledge and mapping the 19th century into the 21st century. SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark JOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/PDAPkhNxrC Who is Hollis Robbins? Hollis is a Dean, Professor with a long standing academic focus on 19th century African American history and literature; film and film music; poetry and artificial Intelligence. Hollis writes about leadership in higher education, and is author and editor of several books. She will be joining the University of Utah as Dean of Humanities on July 1. Topics: Welcome Hollis Robbins to The Rhys Show!: (00:00:00) Key things that we can learn from the 19th century to apply to today: (00:02:23) 19th century a function of globalization or a function of industrial revolution?: (00:05:12) Standardization process in the 19th century: (00:06:20) About present fragmentation process and restandardization both in technology and culture: (00:10:36) About being on the same page with the current thing: (00:16:10) Should we realign around better kind of agreements that we have on internet?: (00:18:42) What Hollis thinks the new agreements should be: (00:25:51) Providing structures on how to help people navigate the future: (00:31:55) Pushing forward towards a scaffolding: (00:38:55) About memory app as an anti oblivion frame: (00:40:53) The purpose of attending weekly a clubhouse with Sci-Fi authors: (00:44:12) Utopic science fiction books that show us what a positiver world looks like in the near term: (00:47:50) Why Anecdotal?: (00:50:44) Mentioned resources: Tweetscape: https://www.roote.co/tweetscape/vision AnkiApp, Memory App: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Andy Matuschak: https://andymatuschak.org/ Clubhouse Sci-fi talk: https://www.clubhouse.com/@anecdotal The Martian, book by Andy Weir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel) Severance Series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series) Moby-Dick, book by Herman Melville: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick Uncle Tom’s Cabin, book by Harriet Beecher Stowe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin Connect with Hollis Robbins: Twitter: https://twitter.com/anecdotal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollis-robbins-12642898/