Doug Eacho

among the toronto bourgeois toddler parent set, the *only* argument advanced for "maybe i'll send my kid to private school" is "i want to keep them away from school computers and AI"

not a great sign for academia moving onto this platform that an ad for a TT R1 job, in the year 2025, gets no engagement

Assistant / Associate Prof (Visual Arts and Cultures) - Singapore job with National University of Singapore | 3412642 We seek scholars with strong publication records in leading journals and university presses ...

my NUS dept is hiring in art history, open field. come work with me! :

careers.insidehighered.com/job/3412642/...

yeah i think her reputation is higher in theatreworld than in lit proper

100%

wait is there something bad about jelinek i dont know about? she's maybe my favorite winner of that prize in decades

(the other austrian winner, however...)

we don't get that many global-bourgeois immigrants in the US actually, so Vance is doubly wrong (wrong about the surface as well as about the deeper dynamics) but he's so stewed in the global right that he is hoping other countries' surface appearance can stick in the US anyway

i like the thread here but I think this one may be imported from abroad: in the UK, Canada, Germany (at least Berlin), you actually have had wealthy immigrants at scale buying up real estate, allowing RWers to associate the fact of the refugee with the fact of inward capital flight

in my experience some of the skills are still retained by students of sufficiently elite backgrounds, but *none* of them (enrolled in an arts major) have engaged with non-commercial art unless their parent is a professional artist.

ah haven't tried that one. children of earth is worth another shot i'd think even if it won't be an all-timer for you, just a great execution of a great concept

sorry i'm going to champion the tacky romance cover as so inappropriate it winds up as perfect:

whatt was it children of earth though?!?

i'm reading brandon sanderson's "The Way of Kings" rn and it's definitely a TV-like popcorn guilty pleasure, but it has a cover that *rips*. like if you are reading pop fantasy isn't this what you want your book to look like??

Will look to the Storey - thanks!

Which Gramsci did you go for? I'm working on a more 'pop culture' oriented course than I've taught before (upper-level undergrad lit majors) and am considering him...

I'm so, so sorry.

we did not, in retrospect,
think seriously enough about the amount of $$ they'd have to just settle all of these and continue straight along

will just note that I recall well a conversation from early 2022, when chatgpt was released, w two techie colleagues who'd been poking at LLMs for years. "how far can this go?" I asked. "until people start sueing them for their kid's LLM-prompted suicide" was their immediate answer.

great dude!! reach out to him when you read him for sure

Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar Republic. The newly interconnected world economy was barely understood and yet it was...

also - do you know Owen? - www.routledge.com/Finance-and-...

as I am currently moving my family to the other side of the earth, i cant do this, but man, i wanna. keep these coming!

ok fact-checked this and Pearson claims they are fine, no controller issues, and no consistent / cascading delays from the US. yet.

wait sorry YYZ (toronto) uses American flight controllers ?!?!

are your eye-rolls directed at Carney, or at my narration?

U of T and the other top five or so institutions can weather this. Carney wants more star researchers poached from the states because it's good press so they'll back a few big research chairs. But where will those stars' PhD students go and work? they'll walk out to devastation

Canada will reduce international student permits by more than half, budget reveals “The new study permit caps further erode Canada’s reputation,” said one critic of Ottawa’s plan to next year limit new international student permits to 150,000 from a previous target of 305,900.

colleges and universities will go bankrupt, people will lose their jobs, no one will hire, the entire canadian higher ed system will speedrun a transformation into UK austerity that no one anticipated just three years ago. all to reward racists

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

obsessed with the clash between "i am known for this one Wall" and "but we rich clients want our Wall to be glass" on display here. "what about an extra backyard Meier wall just sitting there" is def a solution

well, an unchallenged PLA naval blockade wouldn't count as an "invasion" now would it

was coming here to say china!

when you sell all your things to move across the world, there are things that you are sad to sell for sentiment, and things you are sad to sell because they've depreciated so drastically.

few things combine both as effectively as our two-years-young dutch bikes, for sale in a toronto november