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a solid bluetooth microphone and a pixel phone with recorder is what i'd use.

I look forward to reading this someday, it reminds me of all the new media fears over the ages.

We still have decided that internet need capitalized... Don't rush things.....

I think that if you were to become an electrician you would have had the same issues because I don't think you are willing to give up on your models of success and adopt what is basically just a simulation of success as success.

but they are about as cynical about their careers as we were, knowing full well that their degrees aren't 'worth' but it is what they do with them that gains 'worth' over time. the economy is one not of 'qualifications' but of 'presentation' and more importantly presentation of 'value extraction'

Similarly, our students in communications seem to do quite well, mostly ending up in middle management after 5-10 years, and some going on to upper in about the ratios one expects. I again think it is the analytical tools combined with the other tools to think with that they develop.

I think this is more about the economy and assumptions than anything else. I have a humanities degree and all of my peers in my classes did quite well, unless they were already deciding no to do well in their degree, but almost all of them went into I.T. or analysis oriented careers.

but they must understand enough to ask a question? Though granted, I've seen the prompts people put on Google and yeah ... frequently they don't know enough...

Next year's courses are a 4th year theory course on Video Game Theory, a Fourth Year Seminar on Cyberlibertarianism, a Graduate course on Critical Video Game Studies, and a third year course, Case Studies in Technology and Power, where the case study is Data. and maybe a travel course...

a week or two of marking and some ... editing and maybe some reading.

the 'mind is flat' book's hypothesis is universal so same scale. I tend to think about how I see it in my work life, which is a smaller space, but the same phenomena, the replacement of thought with unthinking.

our students, because they end up reducing it to everyday surveillance and then apply it without thinking about the larger ramifications of governmentality or biopolitics.

but we used to call it mimetics instead of algorithmics around 30 years ago, where people would be doing the same sorts of things with theory and critical thought. I think it is epistemic laziness, and not uncommon. I frequently have to confront it in regards to foucault's panopticism in

And as for the algorithmic replacement of critical thought, I think that has been going on my whole career. Some people use theory to think with, some to think through, and some people use them to not think, but just accept the theory, make it their model, and apply it uncritically.

i'm not really kidding, I've seen most people being fairly robotic and passive about many things for quite a long time. I think it is the same sort of threat, at least to democracy and democratic education.

but how many people have you known that have let say Marxism, Nietzsche, d&g, or foucault do the same thing, where mimicry of the theory has come to stand in for though and critical thinking....

i have met many people, very few actually want to think, or be reflective in any way... some do moreso as they age, but still "the mind is flat' hypothesis seems too true in most cases.

Super interesting #scicomm #scipol #STS job in UK Govt.

using that line is too implausible to be worth discussing.