Here is more for my article on the language of neoliberalism: for sports teams, one no longer says fans but “fan base.” The marketing department has taken over, and the “fan base” isn’t the fans but the media- and marketing catchment area. Axé.
What, if anything specific, in this book helps broaden the scope and deepen the analysis of my current article? (Capital, and liquid capital, move around and seep everywhere, we know this; how do those or other ideas illuminate the part of the puzzle I am trying to analyze?) Axé.
“The strong connection between diagnosis and political action cannot be ignored,” says Harvey, and I claim this is the key point for the current age. We are in the grip of capital, more than we know, and it is very difficult to see a way out. Axé.
Nothing I am saying about the neoliberal university has not been said before, but in popular discourse, including among professors and within universities, people are acting as though it had not been. Therefore, my article is necessary and is not redundant. What is fresh is my focus on vocabulary. My point is similar to one … More Pour mon article
I decided that perhaps PMLA or Profession, and not a radical education journal, are the place for that article. I realized my book title might only cover the Caribbean case. And a question I got: does my contention that race and state are a really different focus from mestizaje and nation hold together? For that … More The week’s writing report
Originally posted on Chad Wellmon:
This is the slightly edited text of a talk I delivered as the Hansford M. Epes Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities at Davidson College on October 19, 2017. It gathers some of my thinking and writing from the past six months around the question of the university. And, as with most things…
Detroit is an example of the ruins of modernity Benjamin discusses (cf. the Angel of History); how far do these ruins extend? For my article, I want to think about that. Harvey: the molecular logic of capital, as opposed to the logic of the state, the state logic that accompanies capitalism. I have to finish … More Ruins of modernity
The book I bought and then lost was Judith Shapiro, Community of Scholars. Badiou has a book or essay called “Vat is een volk?” that I should read. Michael North’s book The Baltic would be worth reading. So would Lefebvre, Marxist theory and the city. Kant’s 1764 observations on feeling; the sublime and the beautiful; … More Some random notes from earlier
I learned a number of the things one normally learns, about new work, ideas, books. I learned that I have to actually write the proto-article I presented on: it is time to write it, and the thinking will come in the writing. Here are some of the other things I learned. My projects are many … More Some things I learned at the conference
So: for that ALFS article, for which I have so much material and so much writing, but not a clear enough shape, I have these thoughts: 1. We have this situation: Les valeurs d’émancipation et d’égalité n’animent plus le système universitaire, qui est devenu un système de tri de la population. Durant mon enfance, l’éducation … More Not of general interest
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