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  • Carl Elliott – How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners

    How to be an academic failure? Let me count the ways. You can become a disgruntled graduate student. You can become a burned-out administrator, perhaps an associate dean. You can become an aging, solitary hermit, isolated in your own department,… Continue reading

  • Karl Jaspers on the Struggle for Existence

    My existence as such deprives others, just as they deprive me. Every position I occupy excludes another, claiming some of the limited space available. Every success I have diminishes others. My very life is due to the victorious struggle of my forebears, and… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120729

    Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading

  • The Corporate Professor

    I highly recommend all of the articles in the current issue of the Hedgehog Review. Here is the first one: Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University Continue reading

  • the retention pond of mindfulness

    A beloved friend of mine, Matt K., is currently working on an overview of phenomenological techniques for the online journal Purlieu. As he has worked to accomplish his scholarship, he & I have taken up many conversations concerning Husserl’s phenomenology… Continue reading