Category: education
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Hustle hustle hustle (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. Below, I pose a set of questions to make you think about the nature and prevalence of hustling. In Part 2, I examine these questions. In Part 3, I aim to replace the vocabulary of hustling with that of the conversation. — 1.) Word Association: What comes…
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The ‘great speedup’ reconsidered: Being at wits’ end and beyond
Abstract The following paper clocks in at around 2500 words. If you’d like to read it in its entirety, it might be easiest to click on the title of the post above. Here’s an abstract: Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffer, in the July/August issue of Mother Jones, write about the grave social impact of what they term “the great speedup”–essentially,…
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The end of the career: A long view
Abstract I argue that we may be witnessing not the stopping and stalling of some careers but the more far-reaching conclusion that the very idea of a career may be coming to an end. In what follows, I tease out the social implications of the end of the career and then provide some prima facie evidence in support of this…
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An invitation to the reader to join me in a philosophical conversation
A Cordial Invitation I’d like to invite you to have a philosophical conversation with me. If you’re living outside of New York City, then the conversation would take place over Skype. If you’re in the City, then we’d take a stroll through Central Park. The economy we’d be engaged in would be a gift economy.…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 