By age 40, you should have:
• Never left your hometown
• Never been married
• Never kissed a woman
• Never held a stable job
• Never published anything of note
Bailyn opens his book on The Ideological Origins of the Revolution with a claim about pamphlets: that this humble, popular form was where 'the best thought of the day expressed itself.' I tried to write something in that spirit. Work in progress!
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Spot on. I don’t see how this is a criticism. Foucault’s entire project is understand how things came to be. People have always criticized Foucault for not doing this or that, not giving a straight answer/normative framework. Yeah…that’s the point.
Anybody with a Ph.D. in a bookish field, such as literature, theology, philosophy, or history OUGHT to be well-educated enough to teach (sometimes with some extra reading in preparation) a general Great Books course in an undergraduate core curriculum. I am well aware that many aren't, but they ought to be. (Is it not odd to expect our freshmen students to learn what we don’t expect our faculty to already know?)
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
I feel fundamentally as an academic, you should know the difference between AI and genAI. You cannot be positing that using citation managers such as Zotero is the same thing as submitting work that was written with a chatbot. Zotero can only output references that *you* input
Unsolicited advice for people starting a PhD program in the fall:
Be aware that some faculty view mentorship as a means of enlisting new recruits for their favorite disciplinary, methodological, or doctrinal crusade, irrespective of the impact on students' career prospects
Basta del odio forzado a estas pibas para mí tienen bastante personalidad y son variables en los géneros que hacen,,, pero bueno si eso les molesta entonces vayan a escuchar música genérica