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Omitting people from color from these colossal superhero movies where only white people can save the world suggests that they have little value in the world. To deny that agency and to privilege whiteness in film is the very essence of white supremacy. Feliks Garcia, “The overwhelming whiteness of superhero movies” (via dailydot) Wherein folks recognize that…
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gjmueller: The Bloomberg Recruiter Report: Job Skills Companies Want But Can’t Get Business schools are supposed to produce graduates who have the abilities companies need most. But corporate recruiters say some highly sought-after skills are in short supply among newly minted MBAs. As part of our ranking of 122 top business programs, Bloomberg surveyed 1,320…
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nevver: Job Security
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decolonizingmedia: melaniecervantes: Today at UC Berkeley there will a call for accountability. Recently the Astronomy department at UC Berkeley had an email circulate on its listserv encouraging students to sign a petition supporting the Thirty Meter Telescope that is being built on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, which is being protested by Native Hawaiians.…
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Women seem to be drawn to engineering projects that attempt to achieve societal good. Curious to learn whether that was true at other universities, my colleagues and I contacted the dozens of universities that have programs aimed at reducing global poverty and inequality. What we found was consistent and remarkable. The undergraduate-level international minor for…
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betype: I have NOT read and agree to the terms of use. by Cleber Rafael de Campos
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iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs.…
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The camera was invented in 1839. Auguste Comte was just finishing his ‘Cours de philosophie positive’. Positivism and the camera and sociology grew up together. What sustained them all as practices was the belief that observable quantifiable facts, recorded by scientists and experts, would one day offer man such a total knowledge about nature and…
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“I need to be a hamster!” Robyn yells across a packed hall. Here, at the kick-off of Tekla, the free one-day tech conference that the Swedish pop star has helped organize for 200 teenage girls, she is merely a hamster seeking her other hamsters. As an ice-breaking exercise, the girls have been divided up into…