Thanks. It's difficult.
For a while I tried to do the "independent scholar" thing (I don't need an institution, this is by choice, yeah... that's it), but I just couldn't be in those spaces without feeling overwhelmed.
I'm tentatively starting to do some research again, but we'll see how that goes
I get it.
I don't have any experience with the British system. But I still feel the lack of an "academic" identity (and talk about it, I know, sorry) 14 years after getting my PhD with nowhere to go with it.
It's still a kind of a void that keeps me company.
What about Yoji Yamada? He’s also older by 8 days, had directed 30+ more films, and as far as I know is continuing to work. Not that it’s a competition.
No one hates academia quite like the Chronicle of Higher Education.
www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...
"Some people are so invested in their identity as ‘academic’ that the shock is deeply, intensely hurtful all the way down to their core. It really, really hurts. We should talk about that too."
Thank you for that review. Indeed, it doesn't seem like the movie that I had in my mind from the trailers. I had no interest in that movie. But I do want to see the one from your review.
“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Yamada’s latest just came out at the end of last year, and I haven’t heard anything about him retiring. It just seems like an odd point to try to make since there at least one other director doing the same.
Iain M. Banks died on this day in 2013. Years ago, I wrote about his career for Kirkus Reviews, and ended up interviewing @amendlocke.bsky.social about him.
I figured it was a good time to resurface the interview: www.andrewliptak.com/iain-m-banks...