I learned about this book from Clarissa’s blog and am now reading it as well. This post is an aide-mémoire, not a full discussion. a. The exploitation of freedom. “Freedom will prove to have been merely an interlude.” It is felt when passing from one way of living to another, until this too turns out … More Psychopolitics 1: the crisis of freedom
I’d like to read this McGuigan book, but I do not want to buy it, and we do not have it, and the next university only has it in e-format, and only for its own faculty and students, so the following university is the place. Note that that university is also the richest. Don’t let … More Neoliberal culture
People make anti-resumés of rejections, which are interesting since they show the submerged iceberg below the polished tip. Another anti-resumé would be of achievements that don’t “count,” that would not make it into either the resumé or the anti-resumé, but that are achievements nonetheless. A very great deal of my time goes into such things. … More Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea
Originally posted on The Precariat & The Professor:
Talking with Jill yesterday about disappointment and the post-ac hustle, I was reminded of Kate Ragon’s chapter for The Precariat & The Professor, “Pleasure & Paradoxes of Organizing in the Corporate University.” We come to academia for a variety of reasons, but so many of us arrived…
Here is a book about how to be an academic administrator and it looks quite good. It is from 2006 but glancing at it I thought it would be older, as it seems to come from an era so much kinder and gentler and humane. The university was already savage, of course, but it really … More “Where you stand is where you sit”
Here are some of his 2013 thoughts. Watch the video and tell me what you think. What is the value of the humanities education, the Ph.D., and the life of the mind generally? Axé.
These colleagues have pieces recently published and forthcoming on curriculum and academic freedom, a key perception being that faculty rights and tenure are not the only or perhaps even the main point of attack on education. The place where student and faculty rights are both being eroded is curriculum — which is of course one … More James Kyrilo, Alvin Burstein
According to this, the corporate university is already in decline. What of the entrepreneurial university, however: is it the same thing as the corporate university? I am inclined to think not. I do wish I had seen this panel at the MLA: MLA Panel 803. Finance Capital and the University Sunday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 … More David Schultz
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