Fascinating Blog Education in the technocratic age (notes from Voltaire’s Bastards) Through a strange set of circumstances involving Chicken John Rinaldi - and are there ever…BenjaminDecember 25, 2015
Fascinating Blog Closing the book on the “Crisis of the Humanities” means we finally have time to read more books A great new article about college enrollment numbers strongly confirms a conclusion I've been coming…BenjaminDecember 20, 2015
Fascinating Blog Is the study of Bullshit itself bullshit? Bullshit may be the dominant form of expression in the early 21st century: we've reached…BenjaminDecember 8, 2015
Fascinating Blog What we don’t know about Demon Camp can haunt us There’s no sight in nature more beautiful to me than the dance of epistemologies, but…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog What if the humanities are in crisis for all the right reasons? The “Crisis of the Humanities” is much like a soldier who, shooting his own foot,…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog What “Big Data” doesn’t understand about literature could fill a book that it would never read Hey, remember how the internet was going to end racism? How the digital revolution would…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog How Clive James knocked me to the Canvas “FOUR essays on Philip Larkin?” I told Cruz, unbelieving. “That seems excessive.” “Yeah, but they’re…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog A point scored for conservative critics of academia There's a crisis in the humanities. Have you heard? There are many reasons for this…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog There is no humor code! Why the Algorithmic Assumption is the opposite of scholarship Well now this is annoying. A while back I wrote about an article in Salon…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog The deconstruction of “race” as a discourse in Dr. Who … oh who are we kidding? It is possible to do the academic study of popular culture well. It just isn’t…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015