Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

Categories: AnarchoCynicism

Tags: adjuncts, contingent faculty, education, Faculty, future of the university, higher education, Higher Education Reform, PhD mills, professors, Professors in the United States, Public Educatioin, tenure, tenure track, The Ones-at-Large

2 responses to “Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid”

Joseph Orlando

April 10, 2013 at 2:54 pm

I am sad to say that many intelligent people choose to teach college; resulting in the ‘Codification’ of the Human Spirit. Yes on occassion the luminious gems are available for ingestion and illumination. Unfortunatley due to ‘Institutional Collectivity’ non conformity and reductionism wins the day.

Keith I see you as a man on the quest. I am fascinated by the relationship you have experienced with your mentor via the Humanism of the magnificent Karl Jaspers. Keith your strong point is the ‘Imagination.’ To quote John Keats; “The Vale of Soulmaking”,Soul as distinguished from an intelligence__

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1. Keith Wayne Brown
  
  April 10, 2013 at 3:19 pm
  
  Thanks Joseph. I meet a lot of beautiful people who set out to teach in college. Slowly they get worn down. Unfortunately, the structure has become a kind of social necessity and in so doing, higher education has been disciplinized into a mechanism of control. I do think you can accident into relationships with good folks, and I hope that I have been able to be a creative accident for a few youth encountered in my day to day job around a college. Have you read a great deal of Jaspers’ work?
  
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