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The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
The good news: There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is over. The bad news: The crisis of the humanities has been revealed by the events of the last year to be a crisis of civil society writ large. This development can only be celebrated bitterly.
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s, depend on our higher education system. So does our nation’s economy. Higher education has been a major pillar of American economic and technological development since World War II.
Paula Krebs, "Narrators"
Speaking from inside a shiplapped telephone booth, MLA Executive Director and all-around fabulous person Paula Krebs talks here about the difference it makes to understand that all human communication is mediated.
Eric Hayot and Ned Ketyer: TIAA's 'sportswashing' its contribution to climate change
If you’re a Penn State basketball fan, you’ll have heard a lot last week about the pension giant TIAA, which sponsored the Big Ten basketball tournament. The company manages retirement benefits for a wide variety of academic, research, and medical institutions, including the whole Penn State system and the University of Pittsburgh. TIAA hopes that its basketball advertisements will inspire warm feelings about the company, associating it with pride, enthusiasm, and victory.
Are Video Games Like Novels? Original
Are video games like novels? Maybe not exactly, but as literature scholar Eric Hayot asserts, “any understanding of video games that does not include the novel … will necessarily be incomplete.” Video games are influenced by more traditional forms of storytelling, but also influence storytelling back. And tracing their history uncovers some unusual ways that video games have played with conventional ideas of fiction.
Opinion | The Humanities Have a Marketing Problem
The number of undergraduate majors in the humanities across the United States has been in steep decline since the 2007-8 financial crisis. The losses — drops of 50 percent or more in many departments, average drops of 25 to 30 percent from a peak across all disciplines — dwarf the broader but less steep declines in enrollment across higher education. The causes of the precipitous humanities declines?
Humanist Reason: What Is Is, and What Is Might Be
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Video Games & the Novel
The scholarly study of video games dates back to the late 1990s, when the field's first major journal, Game Studies, was founded, and the first major work was published in the field. Perhaps typical for any new academic endeavor, the field justified itself partly via claims of video games’ radical difference from other forms of culture.
Humanist Reason | Columbia University Press
Pub Date: March 2021 ISBN: 9780231197854 Format: Paperback List Price: $25.00£20.00 Pub Date: March 2021 ISBN: 9780231197847 Format: Hardcover List Price: $95.00£74.00 Pub Date: March 2021 ISBN: 9780231552370 Format: E-book List Price: $24.99£20.00 Main Reviews Contents Excerpt Links Awards Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis.
The Sky Is Falling
Humanists are accustomed to thinking of their disciplines in crisis. Indeed this sense of continual crisis may be one of the profession’s most reliable bellwethers; since I entered graduate school, in the mid-1990s, I do not recall an era in which the language of crisis—pedagogical crisis, theoretical crisis, institutional crisis—was not part of our shared lexicon.The last few years have seen some interesting pushback against this crisis talk.
The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What?
Humanists are accustomed to thinking of their disciplines in crisis. Indeed, crisis may be one of the profession’s most reliable bellwethers. Since I entered graduate school, in the mid-1990s, I do not recall an era in which the language of crisis — pedagogical crisis, theoretical crisis, institutional crisis — was not at the center of our shared lexicon. The past few years have seen some interesting pushback against this crisis talk.
The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What?
Humanists are accustomed to thinking of their disciplines in crisis. Indeed, crisis may be one of the profession’s most reliable bellwethers. Since I entered graduate school, in the mid-1990s, I do not recall an era in which the language of crisis — pedagogical crisis, theoretical crisis, institutional crisis — was not at the center of our shared lexicon. The past few years have seen some interesting pushback against this crisis talk.
The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What?
Humanists are accustomed to thinking of their disciplines in crisis. Indeed, crisis may be one of the profession’s most reliable bellwethers. Since I entered graduate school, in the mid-1990s, I do not recall an era in which the language of crisis — pedagogical crisis, theoretical crisis, institutional crisis — was not at the center of our shared lexicon. The past few years have seen some interesting pushback against this crisis talk.
The Sky Is Falling
The last few years have seen some interesting pushback against this crisis talk. Enrollments are not endlessly declining: according to the federal National Center for Education Statistics, the number of bachelor’s degrees in the humanities as a percentage of all degrees was 17.1 in 1970–71, 17.6 in 2005–06, and 14.8 in 2014–15 (“Table 318.20”).
The Sacred Headwaters
CANADIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST Wade Davis is considered the most influential Western advocate for the world’s indigenous cultures. A professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and a longtime National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Davis frequently travels among people in remote places, documenting their culture in books, photographs, and films.
China, Middlebrow to Highbrow
Fiction has more than one way of distancing itself from the real. In most cases this distance serves as a prelude to a future homecoming. The story, like some interstellar traveler, flings itself around the gravity well of a larger and more distant planetary object (the fictional) in order to assure the speed and accuracy of its return to the space that domesticates it (the real). How that happens depends on genre. Take satire.
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