That horrific Vanderbilt report is addressed not to the humanities faculty whom it criticizes but rather administrators. It’s not interested in debating interpretive methods; rather the report authors want to police/defund us out of existence & are addressing those who have the power to do so.
William Deresiewicz is an aggrieved mediocrity, the kind of person who 'goes Nazi'
The new formalism, guys, we’re making it happen
I don't think it's the reason it happened, but one reason why the demise of 'third spaces' wasn't more remarked upon as it happened in the 00s/10s is that a lot of people, including liberals, implicitly assumed that it wouldn't matter, since we would be living on the Internet 24/7 and that was good
“Who’s your favourite X-Men character?”
Me, talking to fellow lefties: gotta be Magneto comrade
Me, talking to fellow queers: Emma Frost, diva!
Me, internally: Cyclops
I know you're changing
Damn you
I know you're changing
Goddamn you for that
question for those who work outside of academia: is your preeminent trade publication almost singlemindedly devoted to destroying your profession, or is that just a thing for us?
Brumaire maybe the Marx text that has aged the best, a bunch of it is like this idiot is the guy in power???