The slides for my 2011 SXSW session: see write up: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professor-uses-high-tech-tools-to-make-case-for-importance-of-reading

1. the end of reading in the usa #lemusgro

2. can’t get into it

3. it’s hard

4. don’t get it

5. it’s boring

6. can’t make anything out of it

7. can’t follow it

8. doesn’t move me

10. draw a picture #lemusgro

18. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By

19. metaphors we read by

27. reading = moving = body

35. despair

36. school failure

37. education = commodity

38. know-what vs. know-how

39. consumption & control

42. aesthetic experience is not transferable

44. no one can read a book for you

46. Marginalia I am reading a book The words are words I like And in the empty frame The page leaves me I try to tell these words I like I like them with the penciled words I write But as soon as I write them there The marriage is no good And their children run outside And not even my erasure Can save them now

47. You Ask Me The other night in your bed with the golden wash of the streetlight across us you asked me how long we can last given your divorce and mine will never leave us. We meet after dark and your daughter asleep and you ask hard questions and I think brave and answer incompletely. Here at my house I spend time alone unpacking books, sweeping the sidewalk, folding laundry. I wonder how it was decided that drying takes longer than washing, healing than cutting, leaving than wanting.

48. oppression

49. reading freedoms

50. “imaginative rehearsals”

51. cognitive embodiment of individual liberty