Yearly Archives: 2015

Lectures and Wisdom

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

My friend Dan Ausbury provoked my thought processes by contributing a couple of articles from the New York Times published in the past weeks. The first is “Lecture me. Really.”; the second is “Schools for Wisdom”. I believe they are … Continue reading →

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TEDxUSagradoCorazón 2015

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Here’s the playlist of our third edition of TEDxUSagradoCorazón, from the past 16th October 2015. Enjoy the videos. And here’s the TEDx 2015 full photo set, available under a Creative Commons license on Flickr.

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Happy Halloween to my students!!

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

#inf1031 & #inf1038

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Hitchcock mashup with Kubrick

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Guess what. A mashup of two among my preferred film directors, Hitchcock and Kubrick. The idea is James Stewart walking San Francisco and being assaulted by Kubrick’s characters and paranoias. For my students, this video is a lesson in creativity … Continue reading →

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Marx, Crime and the Cuckoo

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

What’s in common between Karl Marx, crime and the cuckoo clock, if anything? Well, there is first this little pamphlet written by Marx himself, titled “In praise of crime”, or something very like this. In it, Marx says that, contrary … Continue reading →

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