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“you’re not going to get tenure from it or anything, but”
In an interesting move, my institution now has a line item in our annual reports for “professional/academic blog contributions”. There remains a conservative hierarchy of valuation, though. karaj: today i had a really ecstatic discussion about tumblr with one of my favorite professors. we were talking about feminism and the theoretical really, really for real…
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent and I’m not your mommy. I’m a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?” And I really,…
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Nokia Releases A Font Designed To Work In Any Language
Nokia Releases A Font Designed To Work In Any Language bmdesign:
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“hire me! even for free!”
karaj: cocothinkshefancy: Fair Pay For All Work: Why Unpaid Internships are a Feminist Concern It’s that time of year—across campus, students are checking email and voicemail messages in anticipation of what seems like the golden ticket to success: a chance to commit three months of summer to a low- or unpaid desk job. As we…
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The founding act of the barbarian age (Le Devoir)
towerofsleep: translatingtheprintempserable: Gordon Lefebvre, retired instructor; Éric Martin, professor of philosophy at Collège Édouard-Montpetit 23 May 2012 French text:http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/350622/l-acte-fondateur-de-l-age-barbare For the first time, we are taking pen in hand in Quebec with the fear that this could bring reprisals against us. Despite that, there are things that must be said and written when significant crises burst out that…
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becoming-wave: translatingtheprintempserable: The manifs des casseroles (pot and pan demonstrations) have taken Montreal by storm! These are spontaneous neighbourhood protests in which people clang their pots and pans at 8pm to signify their defiance of Law 78. They do so on street corners, on their balconies, in parks, and tonight (May 23), many of these protests…
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But these paintings are abominations unto the lord of Art. They dismantle themselves. Each of these paintings – from the parrot in a cage to the blossoms and butterflies – takes on the difficulties of representational painting and visibly fails to come close, not merely to mastery, but to basic competence. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks…
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“At 18, you may long to be Damien Hirst when he was 30. But in his 40s, Hirst apparently wishes he was the artist that, who knows, he might have been, had he spent his youth drawing day after day after day.”
“At 18, you may long to be Damien Hirst when he was 30. But in his 40s, Hirst apparently wishes he was the artist that, who knows, he might have been, had he spent his youth drawing day after day after day.”
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Tower of Sleep: Denouncing law 78 (CA-OM-SC section locale 1983) [STM bus drivers’ union]
Tower of Sleep: Denouncing law 78 (CA-OM-SC section locale 1983) [STM bus drivers’ union] translatingtheprintempserable: Original text: http://www.caomsc.qc.ca/ This morning your executive decided, unanimously, to strongly denounce Law 78, adopted by the government last week. This law is unprecedented in that it is now necessary to have the police’s authorization for any…
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towerofsleep: Some Albertans showed up for solidarity.