Category: The Iconoclast
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The Perverse and the Generic
By Glenn Wallis. The Perverse Based on my personal observation, I think it’s generally fair to characterize the student-professor relationship in higher education as: perverted. I mean this in the sense of twisted, contorted, abnormal, corrupted. Picture an image in a hall of mirrors. That grotesque figure captures that of the generic person mutated into the institutional role-player. So,…
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How to Love Your Students
By Glenn Wallis. Let’s create some contrast and tension at the outset and first say how not to love your students. Or, put otherwise, let’s say: How to Hate Your Students Hate: from Proto-Germanic hatis, to treat with hostility. That’s easy: lecture; grade; assign papers; offer the scantiest of feedback on assignments; break down the student’s “performance” into…
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Education Should Not Be Neutral
By João França. Sometimes it seems like we can only talk about education in the positive, but Henry Giroux also gives a name to what we want to leave behind, and for that reason he talks about the “pedagogies of repression.” “Education is not just about empowering people, the practice of freedom, it’s also in some ways…
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Rogue Scholars
By Joshua Ramey & Cleo Kearns Joshua Ramey: It seems to me that the situation we are in, as educators, is that like most people we are having a terrible time taking care of ourselves and taking care of each other, in really really basic ways. The “crisis” of higher education is not really a…
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Against Dullness
By Camelia Elias. Camelia Elias is a renowned Tarot card reader and author of numerous books on cartomancy, hermeticism, mysticism, gnosticism, and esotericism. Born is Romania, she has spent her career (until recently: see below) in Danish universities as a professor of American Studies. As an academic, she authored numerous works on literary theory, poetry…
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Assistant Professor in the #Humanities
By Clelia O. Rodríguez. DESCRIPTION I, as a woman of color, am seeking for the opportunity to teach under the umbrella of the Humanities, broadly speaking. I am a promiscuous individual so preferably non-tenure track solicitors will be considered first. The idea of “for life” commitment is bad for my emotional health without having the…
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Anarchism, Education, and the Road to Peace
By Colman McCarthy. Colman McCarthy is a former Washington Post columnist. He has taught courses in peace studies for over twenty years at numerous colleges and high schools. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Readers Digest, and the Catholic Worker.…
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Why RED, Why Now?
By E.D. The Radical Education Department organically grew out of our orchestrated direct action campaign, as Nova Resistance, against the over-funded and over-securitized lecture by racist eugenicist Charles Murray at Villanova University in the spring of 2017 (click here to read a recent post about this action). However, its roots, for some of us, stretch…
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The Uberfication of the University
By Gary Hall. Fuck off and die—and not in that order. —Then London mayor BORIS JOHNSON, speaking to a London taxi driver during a row over Uber, June 5, 2015 Contents PrefaceThe Sharing EconomyPlatform CapitalismUber.eduThe Reputation EconomyThe Microentrepreneur of the SelfThe Para-academicThe ArtrepreneurAffirmative DisruptionPostscriptAcknowledgments Preface AT FIRST the 2008 financial crisis looked as if it…
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Reclaiming the Deep Reading Brain in the Digital Age
By Mary Keator Although students today are adept at scrolling, surfing and searching the web, they struggle to read deeply and interpret meaning. They spend hours on their handheld digital devices, unaware that the time they spend on these devices is in fact altering their neuro-circuitry and weakening their ability to engage in deep reading.…
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