Academic Antifascist Action

"Modern intellectuals quarrel a great deal about their communication difficulties and in the process talk a lot of pure nonsense, which would better remain unsaid."

Jean Améry, At the Minds Limit, 1966

Get it, you meant specifically here on BS. Was thinking on social media in general. If the position is truly open and someone only sees it here they still have a chance, if it is not open and a good candidate sees it, it makes the selection committee at least squirm with justifications.

With apologies, I do not understand the question. The answer is surely, so that others can see them should they have missed it. Especially, international postings are sometimes easy to miss.

"It was impossible to fight against this lack of understanding, against this world of misunderstanding."

Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist

"[T]hey gave their support to this slaughter, voting in favour of it amid a hubbub of voices. There was something unexpected in their degree of obedience... The extreme violence of the totalitarian social systems proved able to paralyse the human spirit throughout whole continents."

Vasily Grossman

"More than his unintellectual mates the intellectual in the camp was lamed by his historically and sociologically explicable deeper respect for power; in fact, the intellectual always and everywhere has been totally under the sway of power."

Jean Améry, At the Mind's Limits, original published 1966

"[T]he word “fake” meant nothing really, since the word “authentic” meant nothing really."
Robert Childan, dealer of antiquities (real and fake)

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, 1962

"The lie made into the rule of the world."

K. speaking to the priest.
Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Resist the urge to centre yourself as the victim of a personal attack. Instead, truly engage with the substance of what you’re being challenged to consider." (Brunache et al. 2021: 297)