Das Interesse der Neuen Rechten an Romanen unterliegt einer metapolitischen Strategie. Sie nutzen Literatur, um den kulturellen Diskurs zu verschieben. https://taz.de/!6019114
@bryanalexandee@kate@Downes@actualham@harmonygritz@cogdog I should add — I am very aware of the fact that the origins of higher education are all about preparing students for careers, from schools for prospective bureaucrats in ancient China, Hindus Valley, and Mesopotamia, to the origins of European universities as training grounds for lawyers and theologians. But ever since the origin of Humboldt University, higher education has been about more and has taken a broader view of being for the good of society. Neoliberalism in HE has been regressive.
Thank you, Fredrik. I've been concerned for decades that academics not lose the nerve of our vision. Here in Japan we have been through similar pressures for vocationalization, but fortunately in this case, education is a conservative sector of Japanese society that changes only incrementally. Incidentally, Japan had a university mainly for Confucian civil service preparation in the 8th Century Nara Period.
Your case for higher education being not primarily for vocational training but for a broader view to the good of society would be strengthened by adding the examples of Plato's Academy and Nālandā, which I discuss in "What is the Academic Life? 2. The Idea of the University." See https://www.academia.edu/35916771 if you like, or download the whole series from Knowledge Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:26460/CONTENT/academic_life_series.pdf
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Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a column we wish all the members of the media had to read word-for-word, out loud, before they could log on to their computer systems.
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Here's a periodic reminder that I'm selling a huge chunk of my book collection cause I'm moving and have a growing family and OMG help.
Lots of SF/F, a little H, some quirky bits and bobbles and literary stuffs, unique non-fiction (academic and beyond), and even some DVDs, comics, and graphic novels.
Please share with anyone you know who loves them some books. I've got...less than a month to find homes for as much as possible!!! #books
You’re probably going to be installing and changing a lot of stuff over the next few weeks. Make sure you use TimeShift to make system snapshots. (It works like System Restore in Windows).
You can even restore a system that won’t boot anymore, by booting from a Live usb stick, running TimeShift and choosing a snapshot off your hard drive.
Bonus points, once you feel comfortable with the software manager learn how to update Mint with the “apt” commands in the terminal. This will make you feel like an elite hacker while simultaneously teaching you a fast way to do a routine task, updating all your software. Make sure to reflect on how long this would have taken on Windows. :D
Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley & John Polidori, who have gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales. This spawns two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre. Byron also writes the poem Darkness.
Come to see a first edition in paper publisher bindings at the exhibition 'Her booke' Early Modern Women and their Books @ #LambethPalaceLibrary in London, UK