Say the line! "Faculty need to tell the truth about the academic job market." Unobjectionable in itself, this is a constant refrain in online and print performances of academic self-criticism. Why? One implication is that faculty members have been cornering unwary bystanders to share the Good News about tenure-track jobs. Another implication is that the … Continue reading The Illusion of a Future
Month: May 2024
The Sorcerer’s Amanuensis
So there I was, reading Silvia Federici's bestseller, Caliban and the Witch.1 It argues -- to be brief and I hope not unjust -- that the witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries should be ranked alongside the enclosure of land, the elimination of the commons, the conquest of the New World, and the … Continue reading The Sorcerer’s Amanuensis
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