After I finish “Language and the entrepreneurial university” I will write a piece on the non-pecuniary benefits of learning, and some of the beginning ideas are here. I am working on these ideas in part because somehow I do not feel NOT authorized to do so. I struggle with problems of authority when I author. … More Non-pecuniary
The new competitive online price will enable more students to access our first-rate faculty and curricula. It’s the same great product, just at a far better price,” … said. … The University’s … degree and any future specially priced programs are exceptions to the rate reduction and will continue to operate under a package-price structure. … More Price
* The thing is that the very idea of the public, the commons, is what have come under attack from Reagan forward. Now these foundations are trying to rebuild it under their own sign. It all seems cozy, the way working for Apple does while you are under their bubble in the U.S., but … … More Botones de pensamiento que buscan ser la rosa
For the new year (this is the Jewish new year) I had hoped for a new beginning and I got, by random chance, comments on the blocked book manuscript that wrought such havoc on my life. I confess to just having looked it up and skimmed a bit — you write well. For your conceptual … More A comment on my once and future book
1/ I spent the entire day (Saturday) at a meeting about HE in this state and too many people there were too taken in by the pro-privatization speech of the higher-ups and not well enough informed or armed. I was feeling bad the whole time not to be spending the day on research and realized … More Critical university studies, and Avital Ronell
Denial of difference. This was one of my original insights on the problem I am trying to work out. Creole rhetoric after independence needs black characters to serve as mediators for white ones, works to bring everyone into what Piedra calls “literary whiteness”–you can be black and write, but you have to write race-neutral. And … More Evoke and elide / the denial of difference
NYT Opinion pp. 9, 11 1 September 2018. Pankaj Mishra. The religion of whiteness becomes a suicide cult “White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people they had long regarded … More “It is in the motherlands of democracy rather than in fascist Europe that racial hierarchies first defined the modern world”
Why is it important to refuse the idea of treating students like customers? Someone said: “Uneven and neglects US studies of managerialism, going out of her way not to cite Aronowitz, Ross, Slaughter, Rhoades, etc. Readings’ work was out of date when published. And it only lightly touches on the smile economy and the vast … More On teaching in the smile economy
Here is one of my favorite pieces on the Ronell case, and here is the other. Both writers are far better deconstructors and are tackling a far more difficult topic than are Ronell and Butler chatting on a line from Aretha Franklin. On her scholarship, I like this piece by Martin Jay. The MLA wrote … More Academic advice
…not available in Vichy State’s JSTOR. Globality Denise Ferreira da Silva Critical Ethnic Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 33-38 Published by: University of Minnesota Press DOI: 10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0033 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0033 Axé.
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