Warning spoilers My rating: **** imdb link While on things vaguely religious, I thought I would post up another item from my now defunct film website. I originally wrote this review in 2002. I have made some very minor updates. Plot A New York doctoral student in philosophy, Kathleen (Lili Taylor), gets bitten by a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘universities’
The Addiction (1995)
Posted in film, philosophy, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Abel Ferrara, Christopher Walken, existentialism, Jansenism, Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson, Sartre, universities, vampires on May 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The New Academic
Posted in writing and publishing, tagged academic publishing, creativity, higher education, metrics, universities on March 26, 2012 | 4 Comments »
A version of this piece was originally published as ‘Conformity blunts creativity’, The Australian. Higher Education Supplement, Dec 12, 2007. I have added a few minor tweaks to bring it more up to date. But unfortunately not a lot has changed since 2007! Up till now there have been two dominant images of the humanities and [...]
Online vs paper publication
Posted in Foucault, writing and publishing, tagged online publishing, universities on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a most interesting post titled Open access -for all?, Stuart Elden remarks: We started the Society and Space open site as a partner to the print journal and the publisher’s site [...] You would think that a quick – material goes up usually within a day or two of being delivered in final form [...]
Blogging and the Republic of Letters
Posted in academic blogging, writing and publishing, tagged academic publishing, blogs, republic of letters, universities on November 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was interested by this comment by Rhiannon Bury in an interview on Henry Jenkin’s blog Let me close by saying that Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way I disseminate research on fandom. The norm in academia is to analyze our data behind closed doors and not report on it until we have a [...]
Foucault and philosophy
Posted in Foucault, philosophy, tagged analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, de Botton, dummett, feminism, masculinity, middlesex philosophy, neo-libereralism, truth, universities on June 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Posted on my site michel-foucault.com What is philosophy if not a way of reflecting, not so much on what is true and what is false, as on our relationship to truth? … The movement by which, not without effort and uncertainty, dreams and illusions, one detaches oneself from what is accepted as true and seeks [...]
‘Public Intellectuals 2.0′ (2008)
Posted in academic blogging, writing and publishing, tagged academic publishing, blogs, intellectuals, universities on July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Daniel W. Drezner, ‘Public Intellectuals 2.0′, Chronicle of Higher Education, v 55 n12, Nov 2008, p. B5 My rating: *** Link to article (word doc) Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the USA and has run his own blog for about [...]
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