the complete and total inability of these people to conceive of literally any relationship in terms other than an economic exchange is genuinely horrific.
Look, do I think Theresa May was a good prime Minister? No.
But do I think we should respect her as a public servant and extend her some sympathy on what must be a difficult day?
Also no.
Huge amounts of undergraduate teaching at university is done by underpaid and exploited PhD students who were recruited on the promise of a secure academic job which absolutely does not exist anymore.
It's
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French billionaires have donated over 600 million euros in less than a day to help repair Notre Dame. Remember, it isn't that the super-rich can't help fix the problems we all collectively face, it's just that they don't want to.
Just a reminder that the Russell Group has nothing to do with educational quality and is a lobbying group designed to create the illusion of prestige at a small handful of UK universities.
What on Earth is the
@ObserverUK
doing publishing this shameful and untrue claim by
@williamnhutton
that non-Russell Group Unis don't go beyond online lectures? We've been exhausting ourselves offering everything - and I mean everything - for weeks. Retraction please.
I absolutely can't stand this -- modern historical categories being retroactively applied to old texts both dehistoricizes the text and reduces literary particularity to what we already know.
All the people who criticised the students and leftists for deplatforming Milo on the grounds that it would only make him more popular were massively wrong and we should stop paying attention to them.
This thread, aside from being filled with flat out wrong claims, pulls the irritating move of projecting a contemporary discourse back through history thereby erasing the aesthetic, formal and literary developments of the Gothic itself (which is what the author is aiming at)
Given the amount of fuss made here over “cozy horror” over the past month or so, I thought it might be of interest if I provided a bit of definitional & historical context. The term “cozy horror” has been misused as a pretext for shrill paranoiac screaming. Let’s not do that.
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Bradley Cooper shared his concerns about filming the scene featuring Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. He mentioned, "That scene I was so worried about because we did it live... I was recorded live. I had to conduct them. And I spent six years learning
PhD: Specialize! Find your niche! Remember that original contributions to knowledge need to be specific!
Post-PhD jobs: We need you to be able to teach and have expertise across the curriculum from Beowulf to modernism.
Tucker: "The Left, to their great credit, are masters of organizing. They are willing to put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal. They don't argue with each other in public. They know there's strength in numbers. Organizing is the path to power."