COURAGE TO WRITE
Hannah Arendt:
The connotation of courage, which we now feel to be an indispensable quality of the hero, is in fact already present in a willingness to act and speak at all, to insert one’s self into the world and begin a story of one’s own.
SOCIAL MEDIA FROM THE QUIET CORNER OF THE ROOM
When I was in college, I worked as a student assistant to a philosophy professor. It was a good gig for me – I was majoring in philosophy and hoped to teach it in college myself some day.
Read moreRIGGING THE ALGORITHM ON TIKTOK
I wrote in my Getting started post that I still have facebook and instagram accounts. I no longer post there, but I’ve not yet deleted them (as much as meta would let me delete them, that is).
Read moreACADEMIC DEPARTMENTALIZATION AND TEACHING MENTALITY
Alfred North Whitehead:
…the increasing departmentalization of universities during the last hundred years, however necessary for administrative purposes, tends to trivialize the mentality of the teaching profession.
LIVED LIFE AND STORIES
Claire Messud:
Each of us is made up of our lived experiences, of course; but also, both consciously and unconsciously, of all the stories that we have heard, read, or watched.
ISN’T IT NICE TO BE HOME AGAIN?
Yesterday we returned home after just over two weeks away, doing things we enjoy doing, in a city we enjoy visiting.
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