A great post about what is occluded in the term “placement” over at the Edge of the American West seems really timely, given the bad job market this past year. Mostly I just agree with it even though it’s more about history than Comm Studies. I would add that the placement statistic also reifies the …
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I read more and more Montreal blogs — ones that deal with the city and with urban (and suburban) questions in general. I’ve got a postdoc interested in communication infrastructure and the US/Canadian landscape, and I’m reawakening to old interests in urban planning and suburban form as I start to get inklings of post-mp3-book projects. …
Last weekend we wandered in and out of some of the attractions of Portes ouvertes design Montreal. There were lots of highlights: I was very impressed with the augmented reality work of Moment Factory. But recycling was big this year and a number of architecture, design and fashion outfits trumpeted their ecological approach. One such …
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http://lo-boy.net http://lo-boy.bandcamp.com Ballet of Trucks was originally released in 2003. Now it’s available in all your favorite digital formats. Like Radiohead and Saul Williams, we let you name your price or no price at all. If you download, we will take your email address and notify you when our second album comes out sometime in …
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One more, last Mark Taylor response. Now I’ll cut it out.
Here and here.
If you were to start over, how would you build a university from scratch? Would you keep disciplines, tenure, professors, students, and degrees? What would you keep from the current system? Taking a break from the End of the Newspaper, yesterday’s New York Times ran an End of the University op-ed from Mark Taylor, a …
