Category Archives: Academia

a complete misunderstanding of counterpublics

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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the material reality of the “crisis in the humanities”

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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the humanities and public intellectualism

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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how is the job market defined

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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