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Good writing, if you can make it
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.…
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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.