Category: trabajo

• The Adjunct: Confessions and Manifesto of a Benefits-Deprived Professor

  Feb 11

  First, we need to create honest and accurate language. Adjunct designates an inessential supplement, yet adjunct professors are just as permanent a fixture at colleges and universities trying to save a… more ›

• Preemption

  Jul 15

  I’ve been slowly weening myself from the hope of a proper academic career over the past several months. Academia barely exists today, and due to what may still perhaps be… more ›

• Day Two

  Nov 29

  Of the days on which I may have received an email or a phone call informing me that someone somewhere (see previous map) wants to interview me based upon my… more ›

• I’ll Tumble for You

  Aug 12

  I’ve been microblogging on Tumblr for the past few months as l’immoraliste. Usually my posts are nothing more than links for calls for papers, to conferences, and to other professional… more ›

• Into the Past, Part I

  Jan 1

  I spent a few hours the other day cleaning out my study, throwing out, shredding, and recycling various papers I’ve collected over the past several years in anticipation of a… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Spring Writing Projects

  Apr 16

  The online academic journal borderlands out of Australia will publish my review essay of Lisa Guenther’s The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction next month. I’ll… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)

  Jun 23

  Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First we have More as author, here to relate the tale… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)

  Jun 21

  At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space carved out somewhere between a new heaven and a new… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)

  Jun 19

  Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our collective cultural consciousness the very concept of utopia itself. More’s… more ›

• Gathering the Gauntlet

  Mar 24

  Having successfully completed the three written comprehensive exams without either dying or melting down, I now only face the two-hour oral defense scheduled for 2:00 PM tomorrow. I think that… more ›