Week 5: Midterm Project

Week 1: Two Cultures

Charles Percy Snow bridging the gap between Humanities and Science. I found this week’s discussion on the emergence of Two Cultures(the Arts and Sciences) particularly interesting because of the indecisiveness I experienced throughout my academic path at UCLA. I found myself relating with the feelings expressed by Charles Percy Snow in his essay “The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution”. He found himself in a conflicting position, because “By training [he] was a scientist: by vocation [he] was a writer” (1). I was able to relate with this lack of belongingness when I first arrived at UCLA, because in my past schooling I excelled in the science discipline, but always had enjoyed writing. This conflict was eventually resolved with the discovery of Psychology – I felt that it was a happy medium as a marriage between the science and humanities fields. UCLA Campus Map. However, after reading Snow’s essay, I began to question why the struggle between these tw...

Week 3: Robots + Art

Original printing press design. In response to this week’s material, I focused primarily on the ideas presented in lecture regarding the evolution of technology beginning with the industrial revolution all the way up to the present popularity of robots. In Lecture Part 1, Professor talked about how the invention of the printing press is what sparked the exchange of knowledge around the world, which was vital in the development of some of recent history’s most brilliant minds. However, I feel that during the development of technology since this time period, we have turned this method that once helped to spread knowledge and ideas into a mechanism that doesn’t make us think at all. I think this was the biggest juxtaposition that I noticed while reading the material this week, especially in the piece written by Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin Futuristic robot model. ...

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