[Vwoolf] a video on why Woolf matters

[Ilana Simons]

thanks, everyone, for your video ideas so far.  This is fun to read.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Candis McLean <hcmclean at shaw.ca> wrote:

> How do people really communicate? It has nothing to do with words.
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> *From:* Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+hcmclean=shaw.ca at lists.osu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Kristin Czarnecki
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> The beauty and importance to be found in the everyday, the quotidian
> aspects of life.
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> *From:* Vwoolf [
> mailto:vwoolf-bounces+kristin_czarnecki=georgetowncollege.edu at lists.osu.edu
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> Behalf Of *Andre Gerard
> *Sent:* Monday, October 27, 2014 1:31 PM
> *To:* Ella Ophir
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> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] a video on why Woolf matters
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> Thinking in common...culture as a collective enterprise.
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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Ella Ophir <e.ophir at usask.ca> wrote:
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> Certainly the nature of the "self," its fluidity, instability,
> permeability (*Mrs. Dalloway: *". . . she would not say of Peter, she
> would not say of herself, I am this, I am that.") All her writing on
> biography and autobiography, what it is to "know" oneself or another.
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ilana Simons <ilana.simons at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi group,
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> I'm seeking input--I'd love a group brainstorm leading to a video about V
> Woolf.
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> My Project:
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> I'm making a video about Woolf for The School of Life, a learning center
> partly founded by Alain de Botton, in which philosophy is made (more)
> accessible.  The center produces a video series about big thinkers.  See
> here for examples:
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> https://www.youtube.com/theschooloflifetv
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> Each video in the series tries to isolate 1-4 big ideas developed by
> thinkers.  you can check out the link above for how they do this.
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> Our Challenge:
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> If you had to name 1-4 aspects of life in which Woolf thought more deeply
> than others have, what would those topics be?
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> And what are the ways in which she developed that aspect of life?
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> Possible Examples:
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> 1. Gender.
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> Woolf looked at how the genders occupied their traditional gender roles,
> and how these roles served to create a sense of commitment, of community,
> but also served to distance the genders from each other....
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> 2. Role of Silence in communication
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> Woolf had a sense of what goes unspoken in any conversation, attuning us
> to how much of our communication is transmitted between the words we
> actually speak.
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> 3. Time
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> or Solitude
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> or ...wanna throw an idea in the hat?  I'd appreciate your brainwork.
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> Thanks
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> Ilana
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