Long quotation from here, emphasis added: When “we” complain about the systemic inequities that exist in higher education, it’s because of this: 500 applicants, many if not most of whom were qualified for the position, one job. We complain because we were misinformed and misled about our chances on the job market. And, out of … More Lee Skallerup Bessette
Four out of five sections are finished and I just want to get this manuscript out. To that end I am (a) in a writing binge that could not sustain a book or even a different kind of article, but is good for this; and (b) “just writing,” in the way I understand this (like … More The notes for my piece, updating daily…
This post is a footnote to the Spanish Professor’s excellent discussion of the case of Rebecca Schuman, who has taken a certain amount of abuse lately and of whose situation I am now somewhat better apprised than I have been. I have a few non-Power points to make. 1. Schuman is in German. Do you … More Rebecca Schuman
I had two counterintuitive maxims in mind earlier today and I have forgotten one, I hope it returns to me. The other is that people who accuse others of “arrogance” are, generally speaking, envious of achievement and humility, that they know they are incapable of themselves. I think arrogant people exist but I do not … More Maxims, and a question
Axé.
“Race was the color of the system, but the system was not about race; it was about power.” Then there is this one, with a Miles Davis soundtrack: Axé.
These shoes are the Merrell Evera Shift and they are heels for biking. I do not need them but I have decided I should indulge my shoe obsession at the planning level as much as possible. I am still learning what I can wear, so this is not a fetishism, it is research. One thing … More Le soleil
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1960) is a documentary film made at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and filmed and directed by noted commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and the film director Aram Avakian, who also edited the movie. The Columbia Records jazz producer, George Avakian, was the musical director of … More Bert Stern
I wish I still had this bicycle, but I hereby memorialize it, as it was stolen in March. At our institution attendance at graduation is required of students if they wish to receive the degree, and of faculty every term. It is as though the institution insisted on keeping us as captive audience for one … More Summer …
Eric Margolis, one of the people I met by starting an academic Facebook page, has this idea of the ‘hidden curriculum’ which I think applies to my project. I was at one point using this very old idea from Eagleton, cognitive and emotive discourses, but I like the idea of a hidden curriculum better. The … More The hidden curriculum
