I always enjoyed helping students, undergraduate and graduate, get jobs. Most professors have never been gainfully employed and send students (out of disinterest if not incompetence) to equally clueless ‘academic advisors’ and ‘placement directors’. Now that I’ve left the…
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1 Told you I would be back next week. “Actually you told us that in our voice because we knew it already, nerd.” Okay, fine; Twitter knows better than…
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A shameful day. I miss my Twitter friends dearly, but perhaps I willed this. I have two jobs, neither of which I perform particularly well, and two…
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1 Queer French philosophers were right, ‘mental illness’ is largely a social construct. Generations prior attributed insanity to possession or otherwise…
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1 Any decent political science PhD program will start with a course on the philosophy of science, after which you are pulled aside and the instructor…
1 It’s useless discussing, yet again, whether Stanley Kubrick was murdered because he revealed too much (this is obviously true so it warrants no…
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1 An interesting forum post shared with me by @postpostpostr. It’s a critical reading of Sudhir Venkatesh’s book Gang Leader for a Day, about a UChicago…
Giorgio Agamben offers us a useful way to conceptualize postmodern totalitarianism. Like many brilliant concepts—such as Max Weber’s ideal type of the…
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