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Last updated April 2019
I edit broadly on topics in the arts, humanities, and education, some topics by interest and others by circumstance. What follows is a general, brief introduction to my work, for those curious.

I have contributed over 1100 print-equivalent pages of content to Wikipedia and the public domain since 2013.

My current projects include:

  • Editions of the Venice Biennale
  • Biographies of contemporary women artists from Africa
  • History and historiography of anarchism



Smithsonian National Museum of African Art collaboration since 2016



books on education: history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology
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Centuries of Childhood (1960), Philippe Ariès's best-known history of childhood, known for its now-refuted argument that the concept of "childhood" is a modern development  • Medieval Children (2001), history of English children throughout the Middle Ages, directly refutes Ariès's thesis  • Education for Extinction (1995)  • The Elusive Ideal  • The Emergence of the American University  • The End of College  • Excellent Sheep  • Huck's Raft  • The Importance of Being Little  • The Modern School Movement (book)  • Official Knowledge  • The Strike That Changed New York, on the Oceanhill-Brownsville strike  • The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Rancière on the role of the teacher and individual towards individual liberation  • The Hemlock Cup  • The Golden Passport  • The Transformation of the School  • Tinkering toward Utopia  • An Elusive Science  • The End of American Childhood  • The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935


books on anarchism
  • Bibliographies for some 40-odd books on and related to contemporary anarchism
    (Paul Avrich, David Graeber, Paul Goodman, etc.)



free school movement



 Rare Replay, 32-article collaboration on the 2015 compilation of Rare and Ultimate releases


 indie game media: over 1,500 files released by request under free use license, including:

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Absolver (2017)  • Alto's Adventure (2015)  • Blek (2013)  • Nidhogg (2014) (dev,  sequel)  • Secrets of Rætikon (2014)  • Rymdkapsel (2013)  • SpellTower (2013) by Zach Gage  • Thralled  • TowerFall (2013)  • Vainglory (2014)  • Windosill (2009)




addt'l expansions by topic

  • Leonard's Bakery, Honolulu bakery, popularized the malasada
  • Libor Michálek (b. 1968), Czech economist and whistleblower, the first Pirate Party candidate elected to national office, my first reviewed article
  • Patio 29, a potter's field burial ground within Chile's capital General Cemetery, used for burying victims of Pinochet's 1973 military coup, my second reviewed article



  • Jura Federation, the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the First International during the anti-statist split from the organization
  • Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan revolutionary, militant anarchist whose unpopular execution under Spain's Franco regime made him a cause célèbre for Catalan autonomists and anarchists
  • Paul Avrich, historian of anarchism
  • Lillian Harman (1869–1929), American sex radical feminist
  • Autonomous social center, community centers in which non-authoritarians enact principles of mutual aid
  • Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography, a book-length biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, the author's magnum opus


education

Every Student Succeeds Act, American national public education policy since 2015  • National Council on Teacher Quality, a D.C. think tank that lambasted American teacher prep programs in a 2013 report  • Progressive Education Association, group dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American public schools (1919–1955)  • Henry Caldwell Cook, British educator whose 1917 magnum opus The Play Way contended that youth study through play  • Alice Davis Menken, known for work with female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquency  • Algo Henderson, president of Antioch College credited with their model of shared governance  • History of Education Society, professional organization for American historians of education, founded in 1960  • Carl Kaestle, historian of education, author of Pillars of the Republic, the standard-bearer history of America's common schools  • Herbartianism, educational movement based on German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart's philosophy, influential on American school pedagogy in the late 1800s  • Lorenzo Luzuriaga, brought John Dewey to Argentina  • John Davis Pierce, America's first state (Michigan's) superintendent of public schools  • Arnold Ross, mathematician who founded a noted number theory summer program for talented high school students, one of my first subjects  • Indian school chain Shemrock and Shemford  • University of Wisconsin Experimental College, Meiklejohn's great books program in the late 1920s  • its critic, administrator George Sellery  • its supporter, Wisconsin president (1925–1937) Glenn Frank  • John Hanson Twombly, Wisconsin president (1871–1874) and co-ed advocate  • Teaching Assistants Association, Wisconsin's graduate student labor union, nation's first  • Helen C. White, Wisconsin English prof and first woman to lead the AAUP  • Sifting and winnowing, metaphor for the academic pursuit of truth at Wisconsin  • Sara Goldrick-Rab, sociologist of education  •   new Yale residential colleges, Franklin and Murray

art

Artsy  • Cheryl Donegan, American conceptual and video artist  •  Quentin Jones  •  Marta Kuzma  •  Christine Macel  • Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new modern art gallery  •  Cai Guo-Qiang § Gehry house  • Adrian Piper, American conceptual artist  •

Punta della Dogana, Venetian contemporary art museum  • Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, major Latin American art show in Southern California, 2017–2018  • books Better Living Through Criticism, The Craftsman
intellectual history
internet
lit

Di Yunge, the first major literary movement of Yiddish poets in America (early 20th c.)  • Estadio Chile (poem) (also the poet's wife, Joan Jara)  • My Struggle (Knausgård novels)

music
politics & society
Another Day in the Death of America (2016)  • Between the World and Me (2015)  • Bro (subculture)  • Hillbilly Elegy (2016)  • The Mind at Work (2004)  • You Could Look It Up (2016)  • Distinction
science
games