“Men need to be pandered to in order to feel included”
02/03/2016
Someone said this, and it explains a great deal. Axé.
Category: Working
Considérez
29/02/2016
I am informed that I am in severe distress over workplace bullying. (There is always at least one designated bully, it would seem.) But what is to be noted is that I am in severe distress, which means that the situation is non trivial. Axé.
The new schedule
23/02/2016
Now that spring is coming in I can get up at 6:30, and I will read for research every weekday morning from 7-8. 8-9 is breakfast and commute time. 9-11 is a class preparation bloc on MWF. On T it is a 9-11:30 writing bloc, and on Th it is a 9-10:30 writing bloc. 11-8 … More The new schedule
La recherche
21/02/2016
It does appear some days that my actual research program is not what I say it is, but is about the university itself. It appears important to look at the definitions of what an “entrepreneurial” university are, and perhaps to distinguish between that and the idea of a “business model” for education, and then monetization … More La recherche
Mais c’est bon
14/02/2016
So I spent all afternoon yesterday writing on one project, and all afternoon today reading for another, et c’est bon, it makes you find things you were looking for. Now I am rereading: Julio Ortega’s 1986 book on Vallejo. This turns out to be rather worth doing and I will have some comments on it … More Mais c’est bon
A question
13/02/2016
I need and want more research and writing time. I am also teaching three different courses this semester that all need to go well. I am leading an upcoming round-table, and hosting an upcoming speaker. I am on four graduate committees and directing two undergraduate research projects, of which one due to involves some administrative … More A question
Illumination
13/02/2016
My colleague said we had to assign writing because writing brings students to an act of intellectual discovery unavailable otherwise. I said yes, of course. I realized then that I never considered writing an act of intellectual discovery but a show of virtuosity. I never allowed myself the kind of risk I allow the students … More Illumination
James Kyrilo, Alvin Burstein
13/02/2016
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
The scourge of “relatability”
13/02/2016
What are the qualities that make a work “relatable,” and why have these qualities come to be so highly valued? To seek to see oneself in a work of art is nothing new, nor is it new to enjoy the sensation. Since Freud theorized the process of identification—as a means whereby an individual develops his … More The scourge of “relatability”
Sandemose — eller Jantelov, igen
11/02/2016
“Jante Law is just as normal as the law of gravity,” newspaper editor and anthropologist Anne Knudsen assured me. “You find it everywhere, especially in peasant societies, and back [in Sandemose’s day] there were peasants peasants peasants all over the place in Denmark. This kind of ideology became the State ideology when democracy was established … More Sandemose — eller Jantelov, igen
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