every single one of these linked processes stems from thinking of education in general, & higher ed in particular, as a resource frontier: a virgin territory or untapped resource of as-yet uncaptured potential wealth that now must be harvested / optimized / extracted. this mindset is our true target

It’s also a helpful invention for dealing with kids who wouldn’t otherwise be willing to part with their (gross!) teeth that have fallen out!

An illuminating and generous critical review essay. It remains a year of extraordinary richness in academic books… Fun memory, WJT Mitchell was, my freshman year in college, the first visiting speaker I went to see give a talk (or three, a lecture series on What Images Want).

Lovely! And Pope’s very next couplet enacts this unpredictable use of common rhyming words to humorous effect: If "crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep", The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep".

Thanks for checking Heather!! I really do like Oxford’s online situation, too (chapter abstracts, inline images, links, PDFs)…

Delighted you’re feeling it too! Thanks!

Thanks Juan! Spirit: actualized!

My new book is out in the world a little early, and in the hands of an exceptionally wonderful human!

🤩. Thanks! And back atcha friend! 💜

Big hi to Dave aka Mr Autumn! 👋

I said to myself huh, haven’t looked at emacs in a long time, fired up search, and now gotta hand it to someone:

Really enjoyed this, Brian! (I was primed for it by my colleague Lee’s tales of CEU on his return last year.)

Second event at ASU next month, they'll be sick of me

ALIENS scores even more points in my book, already an all time fave … (yes ha ha ha YES!)