THE VALUE OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: RESISTING MANIPULATION, ABUSE, AND EXPLOITATION

I’m teaching this semester the core subject ‘Contemporary Anglophone Literature: 1990 to the Present’, which we introduced last year in the fourth year of our English Studies BA. I was presenting the introduction to the first unit, 1990-1997, with a survey of the main political, social, and technoscientific events, when I noticed that most persons […]

FROM COVID-19 TO QUIET QUITTING: BEGINNING A NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

I re-read the posts I wrote in early September 2020 and 2021, at the beginning of the academic year, and bad as the situation was then because of the widespread presence of Covid-19, they even sound optimistic in comparison to what lies ahead. Talking yesterday with my seventeen-year-old niece, who starts next week her studies […]