the fact that i have to choose between my grades and my own mental and physical health is really fucked up
Preach.
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February 16, 2013
February 12, 2013
"You see, that’s why I really work like a dog, and I worked like a dog all my life. I am not interested in the academic status of what I am doing because my problem is my own transformation … This transformation of one’s self by one’s own knowledge is, I think, something rather close to the aesthetic experience. Why should a painter work if he is not transformed by his own painting?"
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This reblog is passively aggressively dedicated to Melissa Gregg, rising academic star and cold horrible teacher!
I’m just bitter because I absent failed her class on intimacy because I was so alienated and intimidated by her. I guess I was a mental health wreck but she was SO deaf to my cries for support it was a bit dev.
Her practice of labour feminism is to refuse to perform emotional work in the professional environment of the university. Also telling honours students that they don’t need friends in their honours year their friends will understand. Sucked in for crazy gender and cultural studies students! Da fuq Mel Gregg.
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November 21, 2012
The University of Winnipeg has received a $500,000 grant to study the intergenerational impacts of Canada’s residential schools system.
The university announced on Monday that its Oral History Centre has received the grant from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation to produce a digital storytelling project.
As part of the project, researchers will speak with aboriginal men who were raised by those who were students of residential schools.
The latest study builds on similar research that was carried out in 2010, when six aboriginal women shared their stories of being raised by mothers who had to attend the schools.
Lorena Fontaine, an associate professor of indigenous studies at the university, said she shared her story of being raised by a residential school survivor.
“I felt acknowledged, for the first time in my life,” she said.
“Because this period of my life that had such an impact on me, that I couldn’t talk about, I finally could.” Forced to attend schoolsResidential schools operated during much of the 19th and 20th centuries, as part of a federal government policy aimed at forcing the assimilation of young aboriginal people into European-Canadian society.
A total of about 150,000 aboriginal, Inuit and Métis children were removed from their families and communities and forced to attend the church-run, government-funded schools.
Many students were barred from speaking their native languages or engaging in their culture at the schools. Some also reported experiencing physical and sexual abuse.The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a federally-appointed panel that is documenting the residential school experience, has heard from the children of survivors about the effects their parents’ experiences have had on them and on subsequent generations.
Fontaine said the aim of the University of Winnipeg study is to promote healing, adding that sharing her story helped her change her life for the better.
Researchers acknowledged it can be tougher for men to speak out about their experiences because they are generally taught to stay strong.However, they added that staying silent can create anger, addictions and other personal issues.
The research begins this month in Winnipeg and runs until March 2014.
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September 10, 2012
June 18, 2012
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7. An anxious whiteness would be one that is anxious about such worrying: this white subject would come into existence in its very anxiety about the effects it has on others, or even in fear that it is taking something away from others. This white subject might even be anxious about its own tendency to worry about the proximity of others. So let’s repeat my question: is an anxious whiteness that declares its own anxiety about its worry better, where better might even evoke the promise of “non-racism” or “anti-racism?
12. I will suggest that declaring whiteness, or even ‘admitting’ to one’s own racism, when the declaration is assumed to be ‘evidence’ of an anti-racist commitment, does not do what it says. In other words, putting whiteness into speech, as an object to be spoken about, however critically, is not an anti-racist action, and nor does it necessarily commit a state, institution or person to a form of action that we could describe as anti-racist. To put this more strongly, I will show how declaring one’s whiteness, even as part of a project of social critique, can reproduce white privilege in ways that are ‘unforeseen’. Of course, this is not to reduce whiteness studies to the reproduction of whiteness, even if that is what it can do. As Mike Hill suggests: ‘I cannot know in advance whether white critique will prove politically worthwhile, whether in the end it will be a friendlier ghost than before or will display the same stealth narcissism that feminists of color labeled a white problem in the late 1970s’ (1997, 10).
"— Sara Ahmed (2004) Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism
May 29, 2012
KARL MARX
All that is solid melts into air. They’ve taken, by dead of night, my printer. Today I found myself queuing for 90 minutes to print course notes using the centralised printer system… only to have it crash (NB: centralised economy concept - perhaps to be rethought?) Utter despair led me to a half-formed insight: something about time, and labour, and excess value, and exploitation… I can’t quite figure it. If only I could apply for some research time. But what AHRC programme might it fit into? “Community, Identity and Memory”? Maybe “Conspiracy, Security, and My God Tories are Great”? … no wait… I’ve got it… “The Big Society, Isn’t It Great. (Yes.)” God wish me luck…
KARL MARX, margin notes found in discarded MS of an AHRC Grant Application entitled “Toward a theory of centralised printer useage in the Big Society” (his sole surviving work.)
Gratuitous Picture of Fisher Library
lololol I’m completely obsessed with this blog though
May 11, 2012
Latour: feels so good
“Do you see now why it feels so good to be a critical mind? Why critique, this most ambiguous pharmakon, has become such a potent euphoric drug? You are always right! When naive believers are clinging forcefully to their objects, claiming that they are made to do things because of their gods, their poetry, their cherished objects, you can turn all of those attachments into so many fetishes and humiliate all the believers by showing that it is nothing but their own projection, that you, yes you alone, can see. But as soon as naive believers are thus inflated by some belief in their own importance, in their own projective capacity, you strike them again by a second uppercut and humiliate them again, this time by showing that, whatever they think, their behavior is entirely determined by the action of powerful causalities coming from objective reality they don’t see, but that you, yes you, the never sleeping critic, alone can see. Isn’t this fabulous? Isn’t it really worth going to graduate school to study critique? ‘Enter here, you poor folks. After arduous years of reading turgid prose, you will always be right, you will never be taken in any more; no one, no matter how powerful, will be able to accuse you of naivete, that supreme sin, any longer. Better equipped than Zeus himself you rule alone, striking from above with the salvo of antifetishism in one hand and the solid causality of objectivity in the other.’ The only loser is the naive believer, the great unwashed, always caught off balance.
Is it so surprising, after all, that with such positions given to the object, the humanities have lost the hearts of their fellow citizens, that they had to retreat year after year, entrenching themselves always further in the narrow barracks left to them by more and more stingy deans? The Zeus of Critique rules absolutely, to be sure, but over a desert.”
Bruno Latour. “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern.” Critical Inquiry 30.2 (Winter 2004), p. 239.
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May 10, 2012
"If you think you’re gonna get the radical information out of a university when universities are a part of the process that produces all the kinds of nightmarish racist eugenic information, you know, occasionally you might get a good class, sweet! … it’s a fantasy that that’s going to be delivered by some consumer process in a university."
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~Dean Spade
yuuuuuup.
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Is there a link to a source for this? Slash, where/when did Dean Spade say this?
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May 4, 2012
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…the system is set up to make you feel that you are never doing enough, just as technology has accelerated the amount of things we are expected to be able to do. This results in us all feeling like we are constantly behind, always “catching up”. How many times do you hear yourself saying that to people: “we must catch up soon”. The “catch up” is one of the principal manifestations of our present ontological bearing. At work, it occurs in small and large ways, whether it is the sense of defeat you feel in “wasting” an hour deleting email or the failure you might feel at not seeing your colleagues regularly for coffee. But mostly it presents as a chronic low level internalized suspicion of incompetence, that there just isn’t enough time to do everything you need to do properly.
While it feels highly personal, these are in fact the routine affects of organisational life today. It is worth recognizing the extent to which they are also the principal conditions of your labour that you can control – that is, once you appreciate that there is no temporal or spatial limit to the networked information economy that employs you. The network, which is to say the office, which is to say work and the prospect of doing it, will always follow you home. So part of what we need to imagine collectively is the degree of compensation we want for that new reality, as well as strategies to cope with it.
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Melissa Gregg, In praise of strategic complacency
This person is my teacher and I am seriously crushing.
March 7, 2012
Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.
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