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Link Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?
But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up…

October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments
Writing Thoughts on art practice PhDs
“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.” - Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition What are artists to gain…

July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments
Link Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European…
The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when…

June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments
Link Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the…

December 20 2010, 10:47am | Comments
Link The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the…

August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments

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