Jo Guldi writing for Absent Magazine, Issue 3: The Surprising Death of the Public Intellectual and a Manifesto for its Restoration: The issue here is the loss, for the public, of a certain kind of memory: the memory of cultural, social, and political history of human timescales, the memory that not so long ago things [...]
A Quote an Aspiring Academic Would Do Well to Remember
“Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab [...]
Tolerance (and her darker side)
http://nigelwarburton.typepad.com/philosophy_bites/2008/11/wendy-brown-on-tolerance.html Finally, someone is willing to ask a worthy question on a worthy topic. What the eff is tolerance, anyway? It’s a dirty little secret, I tell you. Listen. Meanwhile, I have joined my professors club, TWAT (two women against tolerance)…