This is a critical review of Chris Hedges’ book Empire of Illusion, with further discussion of its relevance in a society with no future.
(Crossposted at Orange and at Firedoglake)
Tag: academia
Jul 26 2009
Reflections on my experience getting a Ph.D. in Communication
For four years I attended graduate school at the “Department of Communication” of The Ohio State University. This is something of a reflection upon what it means to have an advanced degree (in my case, a Ph.D.) in “Communication,” and especially upon what it means not to have any sort of employment gained from it.
Mar 31 2009
“Education” and an old Chris Hedges column
This is a diary about Chris Hedges’ column of 3/23, America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout. Hedges’ column is mostly about universities, which are what concerns me here. Hedges obliges one to ask as to whether universities have been completely swallowed up by capitalist discipline, and us with them.
(crossposted at Big Orange)