Sacrifice and Education – Part II
Yesterday’s post on dangerous T-shirts, academic bloodletting, and sacrifice continues… I’ve jumped ahead in Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function, to the “function” part, which seems to me particularly...
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“There is no book…”
Reading Sacrifice: It’s Nature and Function, leaves me wondering about all of our daily investitures. It concludes by pointing to the complex ways in which sacrificial rituals function within our...
View ArticleInheriting the Rubble – Eugenics and Behavior
As a radical agnostic (sorry, can you repeat the question?) named “Christopher” (φέρω, pherō: to carry. You work it out….) I only have sympathy for those named “Eugene”. Lord help them if it’s meant...
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Mediumism: The Art of Education
As someone who takes the aesthetics of education seriously, I was pleased to be asked to respond to René Arcilla’s new book, Mediumism. The Panel is this evening, and should prove interesting. In part...
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The Death of Education
The logical extension of my recent strategy of reviewing books I am still reading is to do so before I have even left the bookstore. In a way, then, it is only fitting that I am holding two books on...
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Book Review: Urban Underworlds
A review (by yours truly) of Thomas Heise’s book, Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, has found its way to the online pages of the Teachers College...
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Story Place
“Story time,” we call it, but it is just as much a place. We have places for our stories. Or is it stories for our places? But isn’t this just another way of saying there is a time and a place for...
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The Space Between Heads
Organizational Culture and Discourse, Mats Alvesson There is always this funny moment. I’m nodding along—yep, yep, we can’t reduce culture to discourse; there’s gesture, activity, materiality—when it...
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Precisely Like a Hole in the Head
Bart Huges trepanning himself, 1965. Photo Cor Jaring. Bringing you the latest old news of perforated interiors, we find this article from Cabinet magazine, Like a Hole in the Head. Excerpts: “Feilding...
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