{"id":883,"date":"2016-10-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:00:00","slug":"23things-taking-a-flaneur-approach-to-discovering-digital-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"#23things: taking a “flaneur” approach to discovering digital knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration from Walter Benjamin’s Passagenwerk http:\/\/margininversi.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/06\/walter-benjamin-i-passages-di-parigi.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Flaneur is one of my favourite figures, in particular in the writing of Walter Benjamin whom I discovered as an undergraduate. I was, and am, interested in the Flaneur as he is a useful device for exploring a city, for thinking about how urban life changed during the industrial revolution and beyond it – and because of the idea that walking with a tortoise as a fashionably slow accessory\/pet one could discover the pace of observation. The Flaneur discovers the world at his, and I think it is a predominantly male, pace and directs his gaze where others may not even glance. I was thinking about this because I have been finding that my own engagement in the 23 things<\/a> of the course by the same name has very much proceeded at my own, slow pace, sometimes on my own and sometimes in company. That is because I am taking part as part of a team (and I have written earlier posts<\/a> about our approach) as well as spending time exploring some of the things that I have a particular interest in.<\/p>\n

As a team we are in the middle of block 2 of course content and in our weekly team meetings talking about the course has become a useful focus point for discovering common questions, exploring interests and discussing areas for professional development. We, as a group, continue to benefit from the course as a joint venture in learning new things and that in itself is extremely useful.<\/p>\n

But beyond our common participation I have been having a look at what the next few weeks of course will bring, what things I might discover… and to return to the Flaneur, I feel very much that there is a host of wonderful things waiting to be discovered in the arcades of digital knowledge before me. One topic in particular that I am interested in is Digital Curation<\/a>. Not something I am overly familiar with and also a topic that encourages us to explore Tumblr, a tool I don’t use as yet.<\/p>\n

So, #23things, while the first 12 things have been very rewarding to encounter and discover so far, I am looking forward to the next 11 even more. With my trusty tortoise at my side I shall proceed at my own pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Flaneur is one of my favourite figures, in particular in the writing of Walter Benjamin whom I discovered as an undergraduate. I was, and am, interested in the Flaneur as he is a useful device for exploring a city, for thinking about how urban life changed during the industrial revolution and beyond it – and because of the idea that walking with a tortoise as a fashionably slow accessory\/pet one could discover the pace…<\/p>\n

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