APSA rumor, as reported on the pt site: Wendy Brown is moving back to Berkeley. Did she ever leave?
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Brown to Berkeley?
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Never officially left
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She was never really serious about leaving. People in the know knew this all along. I tried to tell people here, but was mocked. Fools.
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Butler accepted to come to Columbia to see if she liked it. That's all. Brown goes where Butler goes. Butler is how she got to Berkeley in the first place.
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^ Not true. She was hired on her own merits. Butler didn't make any demands or special requests.
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^
Don't be a child and don't act as though we are children. So it's just a coincidence that a couple got two offers from the same school in the same year? If you want someone you have to take their partner into account, especially if the couple is at a place where both already have jobs. Columbia knows that's how it works. It's awkward because Wendy B. doesn't like to think she's second fiddle, so they can say whatever face-saving stuff they want. but it is what it is.Posted 1 year ago # -
and really, who cares? They're overrated drama queens, playing up this star-couple **** to the hilt. It's worse than that LeBron rubbish, although at least he's actually good at what he does, not a preening charlatan.
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"Star couple"? Doesn't someone have to have heard of you before you are a "star"?
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Wendy B never got an offer from Columbia poli sci. Interesting that.
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Would be interesting if it were true but it's false.
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Who are these people?
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It is true that Brown never got an offer from Columbia poli sci. Anthro agreed to take her, but poli sci did not.
It is also true that Brown was a "spousal retention" hire by Berkeley.
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The first page of Google scholar hits show Butler with > 35,000 cites to her work. So it's safe to say that, whatever parochial corner of the scholarly universe this board occupies, people have heard of her. I'm with Nussbaum on this one, though.
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Yes, Brown definitely came to Berkeley as a trailing spouse.
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Brown's citations are also impressive and would easily beat most political scientists at Berkeley (or Harvard).
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That Nussbaum paper is brilliant.
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The Nussbaum paper is great and it explains who Butler is, but who is Brown?
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Brown would have been a huge loss.
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Hypocrisy: Noun: The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. From the Greek hypo-crisis. E.g. Martha Nussbaum criticizes Judith Butler for manipulating the meaning of texts to score political points.
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No, she accuses her of obscurantist name-dropping.
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Like Musonius Rufus?
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^^^ No, its all about Butler. Brown wouldn't be much of a loss, nor much of a gain. Otherwise Columbia Poli Sci probably wouldn't have turned her down, certainly not as what was probably a free extra line.
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if Brown is against the privatization of the UC, I am fully for it.
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^ worst example of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" reasoning ever.
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Hypocrisy: Noun: The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. From the Greek hypo-crisis. E.g. Brown defending public universities while either preparing to jump ship to a private one or holding a public university ransom for a higher salary.
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What does it mean for the public university to presuppose its own
privatization? Is the privatized university simulacra of the governmentality of the public university, or is there a discontinuity between the injunction of privatization and the verisimilitude of my academic simulations? Resituating privatization within an account of neoliberal dispensation, we might then add to this question another: is interpolation of the teaching evaluations the same as interpellation of my resistance to the subjugated performativity of a clear writing?Posted 1 year ago # -
^ like
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What does it mean for the public university to presuppose its own privatization? Is the privatized university simulacra of the governmentality of the public university, or is there a discontinuity between the injunction of privatization and the verisimilitude of my academic simulations? Resituating privatization within an account of neoliberal dispensation, we might then add to this question another: is interpolation of the teaching evaluations the same as interpellation of my resistance to the subjugated performativity of a clear writing?
I do not believe we can answer such questions here, least of all by resisting Agamben's visceral challenge to the governmentality thesis; but if we concede the apparent verisimilitude of the university qua universalizing agent of its own active subjectivity (and this seems uncontroversial), then the very ostensive denotation of that agent, as a named necessity that posits itself (in a Kripkean, but also, perversely, in a Derridean mode) through its public agency, then the university as a public "thing" (putting aside the tensions inherent in that designation) paradoxically wills its own privatization through the very act of its publicity.
These are deep questions. Even to write of them is to beg the question of their own (legitimate? legitimating?) resistance to our transgressive performance of the words themselves.
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Very good. Is there some kind of Butler-Brown critical theory rubbish bot on the internet somewhere?
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