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Pill Pod 159 - The End of the University
🕑 Added 2024-03-10 03:53:25 +0000 UTCAs Toronto descends into the chaos of labour action, the Pill Pod ascends to the old ideal of the university to evaluate its catastrophic death at the hands of private sector vampires. The reading we looked at can be found here.
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Alex B
Israel strategically destroyed Gaza's universities
Alex B
There's a push to label ecosystems with monetary value. While not an ideal outcome it would be a step up from the zero value it holds today. I see society as, similar to the rhizosphere, misunderstood and mistreated. The mass of all ideas and communications can only benefit from the complexity of maturation, and then better serve as a communal stomach/immune system. Here in the UK the last 20 years went from student grants to a neoliberal "austerity" attack on state institutions and the feeling of imminent collapse is palpable. Universities absorb/process a lot of toxicity so we should probably be nurturing them not hollowing them out
TheUltimateBird
Pills the streamer, and Pills the philosopher. What you lack as a internet personality is being a paternal figure. In university you are taught to think. Or given the tools. But here it is madness (complete schizo). It took me a while, to get used to thinking outside the school/university structure. I defend my statement that Pills university is not a good idea. More like I dont need it anymore.
kyri
reminds me of Bill Readings' "the university in ruins". Though he's writing that in the 1990s, I think his ideas about the effects on the contemporary university being organized around an empty referent like "excellence" is a lot more relevant today.
Plastic Pills
Yikes okay
Timothy Kenner
Or we could all just read on our own and let the “liberal arts” as an institution die. There are plenty of books that you can hide in your pocket and you can take anywhere and read in whatever nook or cranny you can find and, it’ll be a journey based on what YOU find valuable and interesting. But that’s just an outsiders’ point of view.
Myles Jeffers
Pills IMO you need to start cracking the whip more on people going on tangents, like you used to. Recent episodes have felt unstructured and meandering
Johannex
Perhaps skip the ‘inside’ intros. It’s already challenging enough to listen to Victor when you’re covering the topics (and he’s often unprepared).
Alex Shook
Contrary to popular opinion Christopher Lasch was very much a leftist (maybe even a Marxist). He frequently critiques the left (which is why right wingers like him), but it's supposed to be a critique from the left.
