Comments on: Saudades, ennui, and other words you won’t find on my mother tongue*

by: Adam

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:15:37 +0000

Of all of Nietzsche’s work, that is the one that would be best treated by a musical theatre adaptation. It practically writes itself, dramatic key changes for the final chorus of each song included.

by: ana

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:58:17 +0000

Adam! A man who understands. A think-tank! Yes! Especially if we can give it some benign name a la the Centre for Independent Studies that allows for said crackpot theories.

And here I was thinking I would be reliant, in post-Phd life, on the profits from my musical/talking book dramatization of Thus Spake Zarathustra!

by: Adam

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:50:59 +0000

I increasingly believe that the world of academe is turned on it’s head, and not in some banal anti-intellectual sense. Rather than being required to chase after us for our skills and ideas, the institutions make us jump through hoop after hoop after hoop. The universities NEED us as teachers and researchers, and yet we have to fight for entry into what, after all that, turns out to be a lot of insecure contract work and admin.

In conclusion: let’s start a think-tank. That way we can do a few days work a week preparing ‘research’ for whoever needs their crack-pot theories legitimated, and use the profits to bank-roll cat farming etc, or warm afternoons reading Nietzsche.