When we had no technology for “vacuuming,” the entire family might have been involved in the beating of the rugs. Then, along comes the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
Domesticity and Home Part II
McKeon, Michael. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge.” Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. I was very excited and somewhat saddened to find this book. Excited, because it seems to be in the vein of thought that I am searching for; and saddened because, original contribution being a [...]
Generativity, Choked
I chose to take the Classics program knowing full well that it would be suffering. Suffering is one thing, but I did not expect to see such a beautifully conceived program so… manhandled. A really intense education is one thing, but a program which depreciates its own mission is another. Like the ouroboros that eats [...]