Unions Drowned Out The Voice Of The Individual I Can Promise You Employers Were Not Listening To The

“unions drowned out the voice of the individual 🥺” I can promise you employers were not listening to the voice of the individual to begin with

October belongs to the ladies and the vampires

Punk? Academia

I'm making this as a separate post to @librarian-by-day's very good point on this thread about dark academia.

As funny as this vibe is, I think the original ‘darkness’ of dark academia has been lost. Donna Tartt’s The Secret History is a foundational text of dark academia. But this book is all about the trap of elitism in higher education. Which is legitimately a problem. As someone from the US, I think the ways higher education fails us, promotes elitism (and oppresses the working class), and ergo supports white supremacy culture SHOULD absolutely be critiqued. If anything, dark academia should be called punk academia…or something along those lines. I don’t want to hate on enjoying aethetics, because they are fun and creative. And its lovely to consider the way you present yourself as an artform. I just think there is so much power behind these kinds of critiques. But dark academia, so perfectly set up to challenge higher education in this way, doesn’t seem to go there. (Maybe I just haven’t found those critiques yet, though?)

Really, I think they said everything I might want to far better than I ever could. Thanks for calling attention to this very real problem that lies beneath the surface of the ivory tower. My humble addition is in the form of a few reading recommendations.

I had the privilege to teach a class about Indigenous research methodologies, taught by an Indigenous professor. As part of that class, we did a lot of reading about how to work within and against an inherently colonial, white supremacist organization like a university.

University of Minnesota Press

A Third University Is Possible

Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine

I would highly encourage everyone who works in/adjacent to academia to read these two books. Both of them offer important insights on the nature of academia, and how research can be a tool of or a vector for pushing back against structural and systemic inequality.

HAPPY ACE WEEK FUCKERS

this academic year, turn into a PDF magpie, filling your Zotero library with shiny files that you'll never quite get around to reading

20. 10. 2023 • 11/100 days of productivity

Feeling very anxious today, it's making it hard to focus.

Conference:

Send a circular about meals to conf. participants

Write to B about the opening speech

Call J about the session moderators

Email K about moderating a session

Send poster corrections to D

Draft my own presentation

ask K about session moderation

forward the order form for dinner

reply to J

Other:

Write the review report

Thank M for the plane tickets

Send order form for the symposium

Household:

laundry

dust, vacuum, mop the floor

washing machine