100% going to read that memoir. I was an English major seriously considering Duke for grad school before deciding that I wasn’t down with selling my soul and parroting stuff I didn’t believe. Having to do so seemed inevitable, so I gave up on my dreams of becoming an English professor. Something tells me this memoir will reinforce my belief that I made the right decision.
Thank you Mike for the recommendation. I got it free and I'm beginning to read it today. I have lots of connections to this topic and am sure I will reach out again, but for now, I wanted to tell you (and your readers) about the (inaugural) conference that just took place last week and hope that you and others will connect and participate next year. Those in attendance created an association - but there's no "membership" to join as of yet. But this link will give you a taste of what it was about and what the association of researchers hope to continue to talk about..... https://www.niagara.edu/workplace-mobbing-conference/
Just finished reading Grad School by Gaslight and I found so many similarities to my son’s experiences. I would love to connect with John Tangney. Could you let him know I’d be interested in talking/emailing with him? klewis2002@yahoo.com
“…several recondite and fairly dense chapters that “unpack,” as English Studies academics are wont to say, the theoretical ideas that underpin much of the activism…”
Slightly tangentially, why do academic ideas so frequently need “unpacking”? Why are they “packed” in the first place? Is it the desire of the original author to be seen as one of the “in-group” that motivates them to speak in code? Is it to create a smokescreen to obscure the fact that they are insecure in the intellectual foundation of their ideas, which, deep down they suspect may be unable to withstand scrutiny?
Some of the theoretical ideas are very abstruse. Often it's made opaque because they are trying to impress and create barriers for the uninitiated. Some of it has to do with mimicking the sciences. Some of it has to do with the difficulty of the ideas.
Amazon will deceive you. When I logged on from one machine they offered Tangney's book for free with a lot of conditions. On another machine it is a flat $5.
I would review it, except that Amazon excommunicated me, trashed my 550 reviews, because I offered a non government-sanctioned opinion of the jabs in my review of The Indoctrinated Brain. I have reposted it among my reviews on my own site here
I'm going to read the book. I just looked and it was only free on Amazon via a Kindle Unlimited subscription. However, I decided to buy the paperback instead. We have a university professor in the family and I'm highly curious regarding his work culture. His stress has seemed off the charts since he took the position. Perhaps this is part of it? Thank you for your background as well. I just recently started following you and had no idea how far one of your books rose pre-covid. That's very impressive.
100% going to read that memoir. I was an English major seriously considering Duke for grad school before deciding that I wasn’t down with selling my soul and parroting stuff I didn’t believe. Having to do so seemed inevitable, so I gave up on my dreams of becoming an English professor. Something tells me this memoir will reinforce my belief that I made the right decision.
Thank you Mike for the recommendation. I got it free and I'm beginning to read it today. I have lots of connections to this topic and am sure I will reach out again, but for now, I wanted to tell you (and your readers) about the (inaugural) conference that just took place last week and hope that you and others will connect and participate next year. Those in attendance created an association - but there's no "membership" to join as of yet. But this link will give you a taste of what it was about and what the association of researchers hope to continue to talk about..... https://www.niagara.edu/workplace-mobbing-conference/
Thank you, Kim. I will definitely check this out.
Just finished reading Grad School by Gaslight and I found so many similarities to my son’s experiences. I would love to connect with John Tangney. Could you let him know I’d be interested in talking/emailing with him? klewis2002@yahoo.com
“…several recondite and fairly dense chapters that “unpack,” as English Studies academics are wont to say, the theoretical ideas that underpin much of the activism…”
Slightly tangentially, why do academic ideas so frequently need “unpacking”? Why are they “packed” in the first place? Is it the desire of the original author to be seen as one of the “in-group” that motivates them to speak in code? Is it to create a smokescreen to obscure the fact that they are insecure in the intellectual foundation of their ideas, which, deep down they suspect may be unable to withstand scrutiny?
Some of the theoretical ideas are very abstruse. Often it's made opaque because they are trying to impress and create barriers for the uninitiated. Some of it has to do with mimicking the sciences. Some of it has to do with the difficulty of the ideas.
Amazon will deceive you. When I logged on from one machine they offered Tangney's book for free with a lot of conditions. On another machine it is a flat $5.
I would review it, except that Amazon excommunicated me, trashed my 550 reviews, because I offered a non government-sanctioned opinion of the jabs in my review of The Indoctrinated Brain. I have reposted it among my reviews on my own site here
https://grahamseibert.substack.com/p/recovered-book-reviews
In any case, glad to review Tangney's book if you have a place to put the review. Maybe somebody else could post it on Amazon.
I'm going to read the book. I just looked and it was only free on Amazon via a Kindle Unlimited subscription. However, I decided to buy the paperback instead. We have a university professor in the family and I'm highly curious regarding his work culture. His stress has seemed off the charts since he took the position. Perhaps this is part of it? Thank you for your background as well. I just recently started following you and had no idea how far one of your books rose pre-covid. That's very impressive.
No problem for me getting the free copy. Thanks for the tip, Michael.