Perhaps it is something we can call the productivity trap. The real reason to work is for pleasure, you get things done and life flows through you and you change, moving up one more level of consciousness. But when the focus is products in a line you have what might be good old fashioned alienated … More Productivity trap
Every day I feel as though I have been beaten with a stick and I think it is my violent workplace. Anything having to do with academic senate, AAUP, or lower division students is cataclysmically violent, like going to war; building safety personnel are unpleasant, and most faculty in my main subunit are working hard … More Violent workplaces
What my friend from those days said recently: “If you went to graduate school where we did, no United States academic job is of interest; nothing compares.” Axé.
My subunit does far too much of it. It is required to combat the forces that want to close our programs — understaffed, we must remain interesting and have many advanced students. This is a trap, however, since the service we do to create our right to exist, as it were, cuts heavily into research … More On service
1/ To write, you have to do research, and I since a certain point I have always been under such pressure to write before doing research. In research you follow up on things, read, and let what you read change your thoughts rather than just eat the pieces you need for your own writing production … More On research
I honestly think and have always thought the only way to get enough peace of mind and research time would be to let the major and graduate programs die. We do amazing amounts of service and out of field teaching to keep these going. Without them, we would teach one more section of service courses … More Method
“For much of human history, systems of virtual money were designed and regulated to ensure that nothing like capitalism could ever emerge to begin with – at least not as it appears in its present form, with most of the world’s population placed in a condition that would in many other periods of history be … More David Graeber
In my graduate program, which was quite rigorous, there were people more advanced than I who knew older languages and older professors, and who said the unusual breadth combined with depth of this program, which made it so long, was Alain Renoir’s fault. This Renoir was the son of the filmmaker and the grandson of … More Alain Renoir
My colleague says that she and her colleague described certain institutional practices to their friends at a conference, and were not believed. I am also tired of that conversation. “I cannot believe what you say is true.” “It is true.” “Go on the market, then.” Going on the market it is not realistic if one … More More on abusive work environments
They love to read, that is why. So they do in fact use it to procrastinate. I would rather write. If I am able to sit down and read, it means I am in the real zone and I am working very well. Every attempt I have ever made to write without reading first has … More On why people think reading is procrastination
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