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  • The Estrangement of the #Lumpenprofessoriate

    With “Higher Education” among the last “factories” making “measurable” products near the main nodes of the Globalized Society of Control, information workers (researchers, teachers, etc) become more and more estranged from themselves and their surroundings even as they succeed in… Continue reading

  • #rationihilization

    When an otherwise reasonable person–who like all humans depends on comparative sense-making–reaches the limits of thinking where all comparisons fail and, rather than admitting “I don’t know”, declares that everything is meaningless. This requires him/her to ignore the performative irony that… Continue reading

    #rationihilization
  • this fork

    fingers extending metallic scraping against a plate grabbing bits of a food delivering to a mouth laying on a tongue flavor, sustenance then letting-go and forgotten chew chew clink clink rest Continue reading

    this fork
  • TRUDGERY in Academe

    With this semester, I have begun the official work toward a PhD. There is always more to learn. And classes provide a way of finding new dialogpartners. I am struggling to find a proper balance between ordering my Socratic desire and meeting… Continue reading

    TRUDGERY in Academe
  • Is College Worth It?

    In 2014, Gallup and Purdue University developed a student-focused approach for evaluating their experiences at institutions of higher education in the U.S. The idea was to rely not on the vague impressions of high school counselors and officials at peer universities, but… Continue reading

    Is College Worth It?
  • Question-Knowing

    none else can ever deconstruct the paint layered facades that hide reality thought concept belief singularity intertwining mist where I and not-I ever flow toward and away from each other and nothing thought concept belief All falls to one who stumbles in two which skitters… Continue reading

    Question-Knowing
  • Global Financial Capitalism’s Brutal Logic

    A very interesting video interview with sociologist Saskia Sassen. Very well worth your 20 minutes. Continue reading

    Global Financial Capitalism’s Brutal Logic