More on the whole Jesus-theme today. Over the past few months I’ve read a couple of books dealing with the Jesus thing – Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf and Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution: two books coming out of radical secular political traditions that grapple with the meat and potatoes of faith [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Academia’
Eagleton, Zizek and Jesus, oh my!
Posted in Academia, Political Stuff, Reading and Writing, tagged Academia, Catholicism, Politics, Reading and Writing, The Left on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Book Blog
Posted in Reading and Writing, tagged Academia, Blogging, Reading and Writing on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick note today. The new book blog is up at http://requiredreadings.ca Still in progress, of course, and I am welcoming suggestions. For now it’s primarily just a list, but we’ll be trying to do short posts on a different entry every day. Read. Debate. Read more.
Accountability and Political Heritage
Posted in Academia, Political Stuff, tagged Academia, Capitalism, Politics, The Left, Working Class on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been getting back to readings in political theory and analysis lately, feeling a little need for brain-food. Some Terry Eagleton, some Slavoj Zizek, debates around “The Common Insurrection” (which will form a post of its own in the days or weeks to come). It’s a welcome change of pace, I’m finding, and jazzing me [...]
Acting Up
Posted in Academia, Relationships, tagged Academia, Identity, Universities on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like everyone of us stumbling across this earth, most days I just live. I do what needs to be done, I entertain odd little thoughts and wonders and fantasies that meander in and out of my brain, and I make it to the next day without any real conscious thought about how I am and [...]
Workers and Scholars
Posted in Academia, Labour and Unions, tagged Academia, Faculty Associations, Work on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was elections day. The various unions and faculty associations around the country decide who will represent them on the board of our national federation. And every speech from every candidate addressed the same issue – a deep divide in the membership that exploded last Fall. The fault line? Where should the line be drawn [...]
Academic Matters
Posted in Academia, Labour and Unions, tagged Academia, Faculty Associations, Work on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a full-time union rep for a Faculty Association, handling grievances, advising on policy, organizing, and doing collective bargaining for profs and librarians at a big research university. And as I sit here at a national convention with people from other academic unions, and as I hear the debates and discussions about how we all [...]
