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A Congressman Asks for Adjuncts’ Stories, and Responses Pour In | Vitae
“This eForum is an opportunity for adjuncts and other contingent faculty to inform the Congress about what’s happening on the ground with higher education,” said Miller, a Democrat, in a news release. “I think there is a huge lack of… Continue reading
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Kanye West: Easy Target for the Daily Currant
I like the Daily Currant because unlike the Onion, the stuff is written just close enough to reality to make you actually buy it for a bit. I figured Kanye actually said this stuff–he has said crap not that far… Continue reading
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Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics | History of Philosophy
This is a nice quick lecture on the Ancient Cynics. Since the speaker references “The Bare Necessities” from The Jungle Book, I also include that song below. You might watch it before you listen to the lecture. In this episode we… Continue reading
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The Elusive Search for Certainty
Amen, amen! As I say to my young friends, philosophy is the willingness to embrace uncertainty combined with the will to ask questions. Continue reading
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The World’s First Trillionaire
Originally posted on The Dish: Elliot Hannon wonders who it will be: The two industries are best positioned to take a billionaire to the next level are technology and retail, for the same reason: Both use a global labor pool to make… Continue reading
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Baudelaire Contra Photography… and Memes?
With a nod in the direction of Modern Disappointment for the inspiration from a comment on the Idea Channel post I put up a few days ago. …During this lamentable period, a new industry arose which contributed not a little… Continue reading
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet
Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and… Continue reading
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Art and the Alter-Modern Philosophical Network
If the Society of Control is in part about the delivery of knowledge and information through constantly modulating networks, then maybe the PBS Idea Channel gives us an inkling of how Millennials will philosophize via the interweb. Here are a… Continue reading
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Neal Smatresk: The UNLV president fights back over budget cuts – VEGAS INC
I believe this fellow will be the next president at the University of North Texas in Denton. The general belief by many people in our state — and it’s kind of a national belief — is that `those higher ed… Continue reading
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A Permanent Slump? | Paul Krugman
…what if the world we’ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades? You might imagine that speculations… Continue reading
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America’s angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy – Salon.com
On the extreme Right, by contrast, race is a proxy for class. Among the white supremacists, when they speak of race consciousness, defending white people, protesting for equal rights for white people, they actually don’t mean all white people. They… Continue reading
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Adjunct. The modern indentured servant.
Originally posted on modern disappointment.: By Sinnamon Rohl I’m an adjunct. That means that when I am in the classroom with you, I’m your professor. But when I am in the company of other faculty or administration in the educational… Continue reading
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Featured Author: Tracy James Jones
Originally posted on Sharon C. Williams-Author: Tracy James Jones from Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, is a blogger, book reviewer, indie author, former actor & artist who writes multicultural romantic drama. Literary portfolio includes four published novels, a collection of short… Continue reading
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MENTAL HEALTH CARE – WHO NEEDS IT?
Originally posted on Sheri Lawrence de Grom: Mental Health Care – Who Needs It? The Fourth House By – Sheri de Grom I couldn’t believe what I’d just heard. It couldn’t be possible. Yet when I looked up and… Continue reading
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The Semantic Apocalypse
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy: Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the Semantic Apocalypse”. (Held at Canada’s premier interdisciplinary department: The University… Continue reading
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Brain Drain and Brain Gain
In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories —… Continue reading
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