Posts Tagged ‘professionalism’
Monday! Morning! Links!
* With respect to the Mad Men finale, kudos to Eileen Sutton and Todd VanDerWerff. And to this guy too.
That last shot really was “The Princess Bride” ending, btw. Beautifully, wonderfully cynical. https://t.co/JaA2EzF9Bl
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 18, 2015
What you call narrative catharsis was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 18, 2015
Okay, so let’s all meet back here in ten years for the premiere of SALLY DRAPER. #MadMen
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 18, 2015
* Davis stayed with the agency for 19 years as a music director, creative concept writer, composer and producer, rising to senior vice president. He would popularize and create new “song-form” advertising that won every award the industry offers. He wrote Coca-Cola songs which are some of the most popular advertisements in existence today, including, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” “It’s the Real Thing,” “Have a Coke and a Smile,” “Mean Joe Green,” “Coke Is It” and “Country Sunshine.” He also wrote songs for Miller Brewing Company (“If You’ve Got the Time”), Campbell’s Soup and Sony.
* Meanwhile last night’s Game of Thrones was prurient and horrible.
* Nnedi Okorafor on magical futurism.
* A Duke University professor has reportedly been placed on leave after posting racist comments online that included talk of “the blacks” and “the Asians.”
* Why Salaita Was “Un-Hired”: The Missing Facts in the AAUP and CAFT Reports.
* Marquette in the ne…. oh come on. (UPDATE: Actual Journal-Sentinel story here.)
* Early men and women were equal, say scientists. Stealing the illustration directly from the Guardian:
* “But Game Of Thrones goes to absurd lengths to present full-frontal female nudity.”
* “People would look at us and say, ‘Oh, so you’re gay Amish?’ ” Johannes said.
* Sweden is not a member of NATO and spends a relatively small amount on its military. How could it hope to deter the Russian navy on its own? The answer, according to one Swedish group, is simple: The Swedes must send out gay propaganda via Morse code.
* “It is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals,” write two New York Times reporters. “Every week or so, more than 100 members of the government’s sprawling national security apparatus gather, by secure video teleconference, to pore over terrorist suspects’ biographies and recommend to the president who should be the next to die.” In Washington, this weekly meeting has been labeled “Terror Tuesday.” Once established, the list of nominees is sent to the White House, where the president orally gives his approval to each name. With the “kill list” validated, the drones do the rest.
* The Forgotten Female Shell-Shock Victims of World War I.
* Can there be a feminist world?
* Death of a Yuppie Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Professional-Managerial Class.
* Columbia Examines Its Long-Ago Links to Slavery.
* Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck.
* Reviving the female canon of philosophy.
* Special issue of Contexts on the sharing economy. Via (as always!) Sunday Reading.
* How Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins?
* I can’t help it: I just love reading about EVE Online.
* And stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 18, 2015 at 7:30 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with AAUP, academic freedom, apocalypse, assassination, Assata Shakur, Barack Obama, Barbara Ehrenreich, boondoggles, class struggle, Columbia, cousins, delicious Coca-Cola, demographics, drones, Duke, ecology, EVE Online, feminism, Flintstones, Game of Thrones, games, garbage, gay rights, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, gender, HBO, history, Mad Men, magical futurism, Marquette, marriage, Nnedi Okorafor, nudity, philosophy, planned communities, pollution trash, primitive communism, primitivism, professionalism, race, racism, rape, rape culture, Republicans, Russia, science fiction, Seattle, sharing economy, slavery, stay at home moms, Steven Salaita, Sweden, television, tenure, the canon, the middle class, the past isn't over it isn't even past, UIUC, utopias, war on terror, World War I, Yuppies
Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Links Mori
* No one in four years has said it yet to me: It’s okay to be poor and go to Duke. And at Yale: “We don’t talk about it.”
* Who are the new socialist wunderkinds of America?
* Now the Post Office is thinking of adding a day of delivery, at least for Amazon packages.
* SimCity’s Turn Toward a Dark, Dystopic Vision of Our Urban Future.
* “Huh?” is the universal utterance.
* Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.
* From the MLA Subconference: Our Humanities Problem.
* There’s so much to unpack in this “porn stars wearing safety goggles!” thing I hardly have the stomach to begin.
* UCLA Has More NCAA Championships Than Black Male Freshmen. Why Black Students Are Avoiding UC Berkeley.
* Adjunct organizing hits the USA Today.
Written by gerrycanavan
November 11, 2013 at 9:20 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with adjuncts, Amazon, apples, Batman, Berkeley, Bill Hicks, class struggle, college admissions, Duke, dystopia, fan fiction, food, futurity, How the University Works, huh?, language, money, mortality, politics, pornography, post office, professionalism, race, SimCity, simple answers to simple questions, slash fiction, socialism, the Anthropocene, the humanities, The Joker, UCLA, Utopia, workplace safety, xkcd, Yale
Probably Didn’t Think This Article All The Way Through
The soon-to-be ex-vice-chancellor of Buckingham University explains in a startlingly ill-conceived article in the Times that female students are a male academic’s “perk.” Via The Guardian via Dana at The Edge of the American West.
PS: “The fault lies with the females.” FYI.
Written by gerrycanavan
September 24, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with academia, FAIL, misogyny, pedagogy, professionalism, sexism, WTF University