Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Jeffrey Insko
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"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself."
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By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
just one thing to add to all the talk about this: they were given this charge in August 2025. The idea that they could make sweeping pronouncements about multiple fields after less than a year of study is laughable on its face.
that's right; let's not let cede to them the ground of reasonableness!
although it's kind of adorable that they talk so much about postmodernism, like how my 88 year-old father in law likes to talk about the time forty years ago when he took my sister-in-law to see "The Sting" in concert.
although it's kind of adorable that they talk so much about postmodernism, like how my 88 year-old father in law likes to talk about the time forty years ago when he took my sister-in-law to see "The Sting" in concert.
anybody who has ever served on a T&P committee anywhere knows this fucking guy
all this
A lapse in rigorous evaluation invites outside interference.
when news of the invasion of Normandy hit, press associations named my grandfather, part of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, as the first man ashore. No way to know that for sure but we do know he never recovered from the war experience so fuck that shit.
