Think What Academia Does to People: Beauvoir contra Precarity
Under what conditions can your academic work be meaningful? De Beauvoir has an unsettling and extreme answer.
One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom
Having discussed issues of responsibility that come up in the context of structural injustice as well as pathways towards solidarity, for this third post of Precarity and Philosophy, I wanted to turn to how precarity can be addressed in the classroom.
Wall-to-Wall Unionizing on Campus: A Powerful Way to Change
This is a story of how Alex Wolf-Root and United Campus Workers Colorado have made some progress against precarity.
Understanding Academic Precarity with Iris Marion Young: Who’s Responsible?
The question management and tenured staff should ask when using non-tenure track labor isn't, "did I create this situation?" but, "given where I am, how can I support you?"
A Little Place to Oppose Insecurity in the World
What constitutes a moral relationship to knowledge? And what do our institutions have to be like to create the grounds for such a relationship?
Is There Room for Everyone’s Odd, Lost Life in Philosophy?
Something was bugging them, and it wasn't just Headgear (the 90s spellcheck-correction for "Heidegger" on Word). Why do we typically feel that the intellectual position of philosophers - and the work that embodies it - need not represent who they are?
Into Philosophy
Introducing a "series of mini-series" wherein "stories exceed ideas"