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One of the biggest buzzwords in the education community is "critical thinking." Truth be told, I haven't the faintest clue what that means. Like "social justice," it means whatever you want it to mean. Nonetheless, put on your critical-thinking cap and look at the latest Speaker's Series 2012 being offered by the Pima Community College right here in southern Arizona. These lectures will be given February 7, March 6, April 3, October 2 November 13, and December 4 of this year. Make your plane reservations to Tucson well in advance.
I wrote an article for TBP on last year's Speaker Series 2011. Audiences were thrilled with lectures on such captivating subjects as Expanding Cultural Perspectives, Storytelling, Dance Origins, and, my favorite, The Tuba As a Solo Instrument: a 75-Year Perspective. As Dave Barry would say, "I am not making this up." So let's move on to some of the lectures in the blockbuster 2012 agenda.
#1. "Closed, Open, and Hyper-Open Form Seeing: An Aesthetic and Historical Perspective" by Michael Stack, Art Faculty. According to the subtext, this talk will start with our earliest memories of drawing, to show how early personal experiences of the visual can be expanded to reveal and reconnect to a variety of historical and social encounters.
Comment. If you understand what the difference is between open and hyper-open, then skip this stem-winder. Look, I don't understand what the title means, much less the explanation. Sounds like a Stack of shit to me.
