Today I submitted five different applications to five different application portals for jobs that required five different sets of documents and five different letters presenting my skills.
Of the five jobs, none of them required me to submit a diversity statement. Two of them required teaching statements. One of them wanted me to combine my teaching statement and my cover letter. Two of them required a cover letter and a research statement.
All of them required a teaching portfolio, albeit differently. One of them wanted summaries of my evaluations (see my eval tweet for that), three of them wanted FULL evaluations, and one of them wanted full evals and class observations.
All of them wanted sample syllabi.
Now, none of them wanted writing samples (wat), though they did all have cryptic warnings about requesting writing samples after advancing to the second stage.
Here's the fun part: all but one of these jobs had what I called a "shotgun ad." This is an ad where the department dumps everything outside of anglophone philosophy, including feminist philosophy, into the AOS/AOC and then makes applicants fight to the death.
The one job that did not do this narrowly focused its ad to what it apparently really wanted. This was extremely refreshing and I wish more jobs actually were thoughtful about their ads for LCT philosophies.
As per usual for the field, none of these ads mentioned philosophy of disability.
Anyway, the job market sucks, the academy runs on exploitation and abuse, and I will never stop pointing this out even if I somehow manage to get tenure.
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I find it odd that the Netflix translation of Seven Deadly Sins translates Shisha no Miyako as "Necropolis." I mean, "Shisha no Miyako" translates to "Capital of the Dead," whereas I would translate Necropolis to "Shisha no Machi," which is literally "City of the Dead."
Now, "Necropolis" might've been a creative choice to emphasize the importance of the location, but that doesn't track with me. I suppose it makes sense because the subs refer to it as "The Necropolis," like a proper noun.
They also translate "sate sate sate" as "well that's a good question," which odd to me: "sate" and "satteto" have the force of "well" or "well, let's see." I guess the localization makes sense, but I'd do something like "well, well, well, I guess we'll have to go and find out."
There's a whole generation of scholars struggling to find full-time employment while assholes call for the cancellation of whole universities, publish transphobic dreck, and create journals to avoid accountability for publishing bigotry as scholarship.
And yet, somehow the problem is that academics are "too liberal," "too woke," "too left," and "indoctrinating our students." Somehow, the problem is "free speech" no longer being tolerated in the academy. Somehow, the problem is "cancel culture."
If I were to write a novel, it would be a heist novel about stealing a starship, Oceans 11 style, only for the protagonists to discover that the starship contracted them to do it.
(Ocean’s 11 but with starships!)
The second novel would probably be the sibling ship kidnapping it’s own captain and crew to bring in the ship that had… uh… stolen itself. Both ships get arrested in the end.
(Taken, but with a confused, angry starship!)
The third novel, predictably, would be both ships executing a prison break (how do you even imprison a starship?) with their respective crews, just to completely fuck with prison break tropes.
Sophie needs to stop beating around the bush and just come out and say she knows Ryan is Batwoman. My prediction: Sophie is going to compromise herself to prevent Ryan from being outed and lose her job in the process.
Luke is worried about the "future of the symbol" and not necessarily Ryan per-se. I wonder if this is saying something about what Ryan represents as a Black woman and Batwoman, how that changes the nature of the "Bat legacy."
Since I do a lot of work on affect and affective engagement, I’ve been thinking about one of the primary qualities of my experience with ADHD. That is, we feel so much and we do so with such intensity.
Now, I know we talk about this in terms of sensory phenomena, but I think of it in other ways. For example some of my students with ADHD say they feel connections between concepts, but can’t articulate them. Or the feel how something fits before they “know” it does.
I’m not saying there’s a feeling/thinking divide. Rather, I’m saying that ADHD folks are more attuned to the affective or qualitative dimensions of things due to our neurodiversiry. On this view, the meandering way we explain is an attempt to use language to describe a feeling.
Happy May Day! Did you know that sex workers are workers and including them in your conversations about labor is the bare minimum you can do?
Also, did you know that FOSTA/SESTA is not only a safety issue for sex workers, but also a labor issue?
Same with shadowbanning and other forms of digital discrimination targeted at sex workers.
Did you also know that framing sex work solely in terms of labor elides a whole host of social and cultural concerns that sex workers have been raising for decades?