But slowly I realized what the academy really is–v. what it claims to be such that I had mistakenly thought it was a less racist and sexist career path: a neoliberal corporation looking for the most docile workers (i.e. not ‘abrasive’, selfishly careerist, invested in benefiting from structural inequality and reproducing it–often unconsciously, for reasons … More Why I am not a liberal, reason #99
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Fíjense en lo que dice Ricardo Palma: “The principal cause of the great defeat is that the majority of Peru is composed of that wretched and degraded race that we once attempted to dignify and ennoble. The Indian lacks patriotic sense; he is born enemy of the white and of the man of the coast. … More Facebook is refusing to post
I have written an essay for my MOOC that is half the maximum length and that took no thought or deep reading. This is because I am not taking the MOOC terribly seriously, yet I want to experience it. I am working for a C. Therefore I should not be posting the piece, but I … More Sentences
…it is going to start and we will meet many more students resembling our former students, people who may or may not use their degrees directly in their future jobs but who will: ♦ discover they can work white collar ♦ discover that they enjoy the humanities ♦ learn that if they go down to … More School
Here is something about academic advice that I would rather write about over here, since I am supposed to write an alternative advice book one day. What is one advising on? I seek advice on how to remain myself in atmospheres which actively militate against it. How to remember it is actually good to have an … More Une de mes belles perceptions
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As I keep discovering, I am pedagogically more radical than most. If I taught a MOOC, I would take the “guide on the side” seriously by not videotaping myself at all, only posting letters, as in a blog post. Videotapes I would post would be of others, and they could be archival videotapes of academic … More MOOC
1) We introduced two motions into faculty senate: the first motion establishing a committee to rethink the Senate so that it could exercise a stronger voice in shared governance with administration; the second motion to shift our percentage of tenure-line to off-tenure-line instruction to 70/30 in 5 years. The first motion passed; the second was … More An activism recipe
Rousseau in the Discourse on Arts and Sciences: Considering the dreadful disorders which printing has already caused in Europe and judging the future by the progress which evil makes day by day, we can readily predict that sovereigns will not delay in taking as many pains to ban this terrible art from their states as … More “The Glenn Beck of the Eighteenth Century”
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