Posts Tagged ‘transient academics’
Weekend Links
* An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow. Please know that this link is very painful to read and will likely be especially so for survivors. What a horror.
* I’m pretty sure I read this interview with Woody Allen when it was published in 2001, as I’ve been using that exact phrase “the heart wants what it wants” as sarcastic shorthand for destructive, deluded narcissism ever since. But Farrow’s accusations, which are in there, never stuck with me, either from their initial airing in 1993 or from this article in 2001. I don’t know if I concluded from the reporters’s framing and the lack of a conviction that they’d been proven false, or what. I had no memory of any of this before what happened during the Globes. And I feel terrible about that. It’s not about me, but reading her letter and hearing her story broke my heart. “You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton.”
* “Of course, his dark side was always hiding in plain sight.”
* CU-Boulder reports pervasive sexual harassment within philosophy department. Women fleeing U of Colorado philosophy department’s rampant sex harassment. Summary of Report by the American Philosophical Association to the University of Colorado Boulder. Colorado: What We Do And Don’t Know.
* Adam Kotsko thinks this from Timothy Burke might be the best thing he’s read about academic labor, but I still think this from Timothy Burke is.
* Scenes from my Cultural Preservation class: consumerism and abandoned malls at the Haggerty Museum of Art. The American Black Holocaust Museum, once the only museum in the country to be dedicated to the memory of slavery. The Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear.
* Use the fields below to search for an institution and view the numbers and percentages of tenure-track, full-time non-tenure-track, and part-time faculty members at that institution in 1995 and in 2009.
* Neighbors said to fear ‘transient academics.’
* Educational pessimism and socialism.
* U.S. map showing amount of snow needed to cancel school by county.
* Scarlett Johansson’s separation from Oxfam seems to have caused Netanyahu to call a meeting to discuss BDS.
* Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary.
* Snow, premeditation, and The Walking Dead.
* A short Seinfeld reunion of some kind seems to be in the offing. A Super Bowl ad, surely, no matter what they’re claiming otherwise?
* Time-Travelling Amazon Reviews Of The Next Series Of Doctor Who.
* Will Michael Mann end the National Review?
* ‘Out-Of-Control’ Rig In The Gulf Gushing Methane Freely Into The Atmosphere. The Water Levels Of The Middle East’s Biggest Lake Have Dropped 95 Percent In Two Decades. Fracking Under Houses Could Be New Norm As U.K. Puts Environmental Concerns On Backburner.
* An Open Letter to the White Woman Who Felt Bad for Me at Yoga.
* J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermione’s relationship. She also almost killed Ron altogether, so.
* And the Batman vs. Superman news just gets worse and worse. Perhaps it’s time I just lost hope.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 1, 2014 at 9:48 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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