Tag Archives: academia
links for 2007-11-26: Freud, Vinge
Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department – New York Times passing strange. (tags: psychology academia science Freud psychoanalysis) Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge Another complete novel for reading, if you can bear it, on screen. … more…
links for 2007-07-11: love on campus
The American Scholar – Love on Campus – By William Deresiewicz It has become a kind of suppressed cultural memory, a haunting imaginative possibility. In our sex-stupefied, anti-intellectual culture, the eros of souls has become the love that dares not … more…
Copyright as Cudgel
Riding high in the Daypop chart at the moment, and quite right too, is an article called Copyright as Cudgel, which explains at considerable length the problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the threat it poses to … more…
Law student wins £30,000 payout
BBC NEWS | Education | Law student wins £30,000 payout – very interesting precedent being set here, particularly for overseas students and postgraduates, whose fees are not subject to capping, and consequently universities are charging whatever they can get away … more…
Why sub-culture no longer exists
This Machine Kills Fascists: Why sub-culture no longer exists, by Nicholas Rombes – “The frantic replication of reality on TV shows and in movies desperately and unsuccessfully masks the truth that the real is running out — it’s practically all … more…
Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians
Academic Excellence Dept: This has taken a while to filter through to me (from the Observer last November)Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians – a paper by a leading Spanish geneticist who studied the genetic makeup of Palestinians … more…
Buffy slays academics
BBC News | EDUCATION | Buffy slays academics – coming to a campus near you, a tenured professor of Buffy Studies (actually an MA, but you get my drift). (BBC News – oh and let’s have a picture of Sarah … more…
Scientists kill mice with dance music
Scientists kill mice with dance music – no, this isn’t happening. This is not happening. (thisislondon)
Nicholson Baker: Double Fold
Double Fold – Nicholson Baker on library-microfilming practices, excerpted in NYTimes (by way of Booknotes)
Stanley Fish: Condemnation Without Absolutes
I’ve taken a few days to get around to reading Condemnation Without Absolutes, a much-blogged, much-discussed NYTimes article in which Stanley Fish examines the assertion that 911 has put an end to postmodern relativism. It’s a very good piece, exposing … more…