tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post5550897180469899818..comments2023-12-20T17:48:18.108-05:00Comments on To Delight and to Instruct: Assessing the HumanitiesHoracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-72321503848972365162007-11-17T22:50:00.000-05:002007-11-17T22:50:00.000-05:00This is a brilliant post. I'm going to come back t...This is a brilliant post. I'm going to come back to it with a response as soon as I find a way to bring in some of my advisor's work without totally giving her away.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-3486112322584125362007-11-17T13:37:00.000-05:002007-11-17T13:37:00.000-05:00No, you're right, we are not merely cogs, and I th...No, you're right, we are not merely cogs, and I think the thinking, writing and teaching we do actively resists that in some ways. But I also think we're fooling ourselves to deny entirely our role in a larger economic and ideological system. <BR/><BR/>Certainly the drive to satisfy the impulse to prepare our students specifically for careers is in effect to prepare them to enter the marketplace as a labor resource for that system. In many ways, I think this leaves us in something of an ethical quandary: Can we prep students for careers without acknowledging that we're playing into that system? Can we alternatively justify NOT preparing them explicitly for the economic realities of finding work just because we (or maybe just I) don't like the systemic implications?<BR/><BR/>In the end though, I think that we ARE functionaries of the military-industrial-academic complex, even as our local activities of teaching and writing might seek in specific ways to resist the crush of that complex.Horacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-47640658046901011822007-11-17T12:47:00.000-05:002007-11-17T12:47:00.000-05:00i think much of what you say is true, but i don't ...i think much of what you say is true, but i don't think we have to be so negative about the situation that we have to call ourselves "cogs." we still get to think and write and do, after all. i, for one, do not identify as a cog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com