Academia
According to Georgia Law Makers, Queer Theory is Not Legitimate
This was sent out on a listserv I’m on:
According to Republican lawmakers in Georgia and the Christian Coalition, queer theory is not a legitimate course of study.
On CNN’s American Morning today, Carol Costello reported on Georgia’s recent variation of the age-old debate over what should be taught in our schools. Georgia State University is under [...]
speaking of digital vs. print
I too am bothered by College Composition and Communication’s decision to put only excerpts to the Re-Visions and Review essays in the print issue and to put the full text online. Go to Deb’s post for a great discussion about the decision to do so.
I love the digital, but prefer print for sustained academic reading. [...]
notes from the interblags: too many tabs open again!
• Queerty: Despite opening in only 36 theatres, Gus Van Sant’s film Milk came in 10th in box office sales over the weekend. Perhaps this means that it might come to Penntucky. I want to see it, though I’m pretty ambivalent about it (but that’s another post).
• According to Queers United, Winq has become the first [...]
cite check
Inside Higher Ed has a post about poor citation in academic publishing. I’ve noticed this problem a few times in journal articles and books: misspelled authors’ names, wrong journal volume numbers, a bibliographic entry that doesn’t have the translator listed, a quotation that isn’t clear that it’s the authors’ translation of a French text, and [...]
notes from the interblags: just some links
I’m going to have to give up on writing on some of these things, though I’ve wanted to. Some tabs that have been left open on my browser over the last month or so:
• “The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to White ‘Anti-Racists’” by Kil Ja Kim at ChickenBones: A Journal
• Being [...]
a complete misunderstanding of counterpublics
A friend of mine is completely enamored by danah boyd’s writing, which to a degree I understand. She’s a PhD student at Berkeley, and she often writes some pretty smart things about online information and networking systems. However, I think her writing too often resorts to sloppy use of terms and fails to take into [...]
the material reality of the “crisis in the humanities”
It seems to me with a lot of this talk about the “crisis in the humanities” (Fish’s recent defense of the Humanities on the NY Times blog, issue 36.1 of New Literary History, and more) tends to not even discuss the material and economic grounding of such a discussion. Though I think that, if I [...]
the humanities and public intellectualism
Stanley Fish’s most recent NY Times blog post seeks to defend his previous post Will the Humanities Save Us?, which I wrote about earlier. This time, Fish reasserts that the Humanities only have intrinsic value, and no utility in the world. To quote his clarification in his newest post:
Note that what we’re talking about here [...]
how is the job market defined
Sara sent me this great Inside Higher Ed article Call to Arms for Academic Labor about Marc Bousquet’s recent book How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. From the IHE article:
In the book, Bousqet doesn’t just lament the situation facing those on the job market, but questions how the market is defined. [...]
