Imagine looking around the landscape of higher ed, at the conditions that are shaping our ability to teach honestly and our students' ability to learn meaningfully, and saying "you know what? We should reduce the number of student accommodations." I mean, what the fuck /8
We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a āModernism and Dataā special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...
āA New World of Informationā: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fieldsāVictorian, Post45, and Black studiesāthere has been a proliferation of attempts to expoundā¦
It's currently Banned Books Week and I'd love to use this moment to remind you that book bans aren't about the books. They're about silencing marginalized people (and creating the permission structure for their harm) and defunding institutions of public learning.
Right now there is a 60-day public comment period, after which the Biden admin can issue its final rule. Have thoughts? Submit them here: www.regulations.gov/document/NHT...
What's happened to higher ed is a choice. We could stop funnelling money to the 1% and invest in education like we used to (look at how we did so pre-Reagan). We don't have a resource problem, we have an allocation problem. We need to stop allowing failed, unjust policies to be "just the way it is"
We're now collecting submissions for our yearly lists of books, articles, and chapters by contingent historians. Submit your own and share widely! Lists will be published in early December.
Since we began publishing in 2019, ContingentĀ has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and weāre doing the same this year for 2024 publi...
The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them
Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Springer, Wolters Kluwer named in US federal antitrust lawsuit. Let's goooooooo!
Looks like that "non-collusiveness" of the academic publishing oligopoly is going to get tested! www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac...
Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of a...
itās funny that cyberlibertarians spent so much time worrying about government surveillance then private tech companies went ahead and build the most invasive and extensive surveillance apparatus weāve ever known out of the thing the they promised would liberate us all
Billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison said he expects AI surveillance systems to reach a point where all citizens are under constant watch.