I recently read a very nice book that I cannot recommend highly enough: “Good Work If You Can Get It. How to Succeed in Academia” by Jason Brennan (2020) It’s written in a witty and funny style but very realistic. The reality behind the academic training programmes (aka the graduate schools) is grim: almost “80,000 […]
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Wonka, our capitalist imaginary
The recent movie, Wonka (2023), tells us the origin story of Willie Wonka, the owner of the chocolate factory from Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Since it is a movie for children, it also showcases, with straightforward clarity, some of our taken-for-granted assumptions about work, slavery and sales, i.e. our capitalistic imaginary. […]
2023 – the year in papers
This was the year of co-authored articles. I wrote a lot in collaboration and solo, yet ost of what I worked on is still in the pipeline, stuck in review. Here are some highlights of what saw the light of publication this year.
Brief summary of some 2022 papers
Before the year 2022 ends, here is a brief summary of several articles recently published:
What makes a philosophical work worth sharing with others?
One of the most feared ones by junior scholars is the following “but is this philosophical work?”. Often used to exclude and to gate-keep newbies, the question touches a painful point. How do we actually know that what we are doing is philosophy and not, say, a mix of literature commentary, with some cultural critique […]
On the Possibility of a Digital University. My first book was just published
I just published my first book: On the Possibility of a Digital University: Thinking and Mediatic Displacement at the University. It is a revised and abridged version of my PhD thesis defended at KU Leuven in 2018 with a beautiful forward written by Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons. The book can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030659752 […]