Sunday, December 21, 2014
Organizing the Humanities
Many literary historians concede that the traditional pedagogical organization of the humanities according to national language and literature has exceeded its expiration date, yet there is little consensus on alternatives. Mobile demography, immigration, and dispersed media networks defy such categorization, but post- nationalism can blind us to the economic and national power struggles that underlie literary politics and to conflict among monocultural states and multilingual communities. Cf. Emily Apter's Untranslatables: A World System
Monday, September 22, 2014
Whom Does the Engine Train?
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
Sense on Censorship

Friday, August 22, 2014
Our Processed World

Age into acts of impassioned freedom by a liberated leisure class. We know
all too well, however, the painful truth about today's work routines, which have become more ― not less ― routinized, soul-killing, and laden with drudgery
to be beguiled. Indeed the grim contrast between the glum reality of cubicle labor and its ilk with the gilded rhetoric of a technocratic Golden Age, which once enticed us, then amused us, now only galls us as we contemplate
our increasingly processed world. As Thorstein Veblen presciently observed
at the dawn of the last century: "Wherever the machine process extends,
it sets the pace for workmen ― great and small."
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Birth of a Language
Friday, July 18, 2014
Visigoths at Academe's Doors?
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warn Drs. David Joliffe and Allison Harl. An array of national surveys
and studies suggests neither high school nor college students spend
much time preparing for class, the central activity of which entails
reading assigned articles, chapters, and books. Similar reviews indicate
college students spend little or no time reading for pleasure. As major
players in general education, most of which requires substantial reading,
English department faculty are increasingly asking themselves:
What are our students reading and why?
Friday, July 11, 2014
Like I Mean This Doesn't Help, You Know

Once More into the Breech

Friday, March 07, 2014
Too Little, Too Late?

Thursday, February 27, 2014
Lord of the Ring?

Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Angelica's Journal/Angelica's Journey
Saturday, February 15, 2014
The New English Empire
Till about 40, Lenovo's CEO Yang Yuanqing spoke hardly any English, but when he bought IBM's personal computer division in 2005, he immersed himself in the language. This week, he was in São Paulo for a board meeting. Like all the proceedings, save a press conference for Chinese media, it was conducted in English. Lenovo is not alone in the switch to the emerging language gold standard in business, as The Economist reports.
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