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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoNeoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident - Public Books2023-06-13T20:29:05+00:00
https://www.publicbooks.org/neoliberal-keywords-creative-passionate-confident/
robertogrecoEverything Is Fine: A Toolkit for Surviving and Thriving in Grad School …
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The most important thing you will do in this role (and maybe your entire career!) is be a part of building the future of education for your area of domain expertise. You will design a program to teach traditional school subjects but in a non-traditional way. If you are a passionate subject matter expert who believes that technology—not teachers—is the key to unlocking students’ full learning potential, then this job is for you.
There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant of these emails. Such exhortations have become ubiquitous on the corporatized university campus, where a diverse cast of players—administrators, student clubs, brand ambassadors, Christian ministries, military recruiters, corporate employers, fitness organizations, test prep companies—coalesce around a shared set of keywords. But when did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising? And how did having those qualities get to be so important?
Three new books address those questions, each dismantling a core myth of neoliberal discourse. In The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, Samuel W. Franklin uncovers the contemporary premium placed on “creativity” as a product of postwar US anxiety. Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life, by Renyi Hong, critiques the contemporary idea of “passion” for one’s work as an affective tool for managing the disappointments, alienation, and injustices of labor under late capitalism. And in Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill contend that the contemporary discourse of self-empowerment directed at women—both a “culture” and a “cult”—represents a neoliberal strand of feminism that makes the individual responsible for improving her own circumstances rather than addressing systemic and institutional injustices.
Together, these books provide historical context for some of neoliberalism’s most persistent idioms: grit, resilience, initiative, innovation, positive mindset, and self-improvement. The books also remind us of the stakes of language in all this. When we continue to rely on such keywords, we obscure the structural reality—and political urgency—of issues like worker precarity and widening economic inequality. Our linguistic repetition reinforces the unquestioned “truth” of the words themselves, and we thus naturalize political problems as personal ones."]]>language highered highereducation education 2023 creativity labor positivity neoliberalism precarity work grit resilience initiative innovation positivemindset mindset self-improvement ianarobitaille samuelfranklin renyihong shaniorgad rosalindgill anxiety capitalism copropratization universities colleges administration management keywords discourse rhetoric passion confidence culture disappointment alienation injustice latecapitalism rossalindgill self-empowerment women gender cults feminism individualism systems systemicinjustice institutions growth growthmindset structures reality politics urgency inequality linguistics truth ubiquity business psychology academia policy collusion industry ideology workplace us coldwar joypaulguilford calvintaylor economics lifestyle labororganizing eugenics aesthetics equity williamshockley davidogilvy belllabs entrepreneurialism progress class classdistinction technology autonomy fulfillment leisure workculture exploitation emotionalfulfillment cynicism uncertainty deprihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4db7ecbee9dd/The Secret to Enjoying a Long Winter2019-12-20T06:41:35+00:00
https://kottke.org/19/11/the-secret-to-enjoying-a-long-winter
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https://boren.blog/2017/08/19/mindset-marketing-behaviorism-and-deficit-ideology/
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq?CMP=fb_gu
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https://tinyletter.com/suzannefischer/letters/the-steps
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http://bb9.berlinbiennale.de/all-problems-can-be-illuminated-not-all-problems-can-be-solved/
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http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2015/05/23/continuous-learning-its-a-mindset-not-a-technology-or-product/
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http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/06/11/the-deliberate-practice-of-disruption/
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http://magicalnihilism.com/2014/02/06/hes-not-there/
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http://embeddedartistproject.com/
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http://pantograph-punch.com/at-the-service-of-the-unusual/
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http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/greg-klerkx-creative-education-lithuania/
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http://ablersite.org/2013/02/22/ignorance-in-science/
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http://plover.net/~bonds/nolongeraskeptic.html
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http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-does-it-take-to-become-an-expert-at-anyt
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/what-the-us-cant-learn-from-finland-about-ed-reform/2012/04/16/gIQAGIvVMT_blog.html?wprss=rss_answer-sheet
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http://margaretwheatley.com/articles/lifetoschools.html
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-thinkering/201112/twelve-things-you-were-not-taught-in-school-about-creative-thinking
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http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/11/21/sometimes-the-stories-are-the-science%e2%80%a6/
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/11/zen-and-the-art-of-making.html
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http://john.jubjubs.net/2011/09/16/figure-out-whos-on-your-team/
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http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/07/29/consequences.html
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http://dmlcentral.net/blog/monika-hardy/redefining-school-success
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http://vimeo.com/22591307
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:77cJqxWbh8AJ:www.playboy.co.uk/print/print-article/item77251/+site:playboy.co.uk+%22I+think+Woz+was+in+a+world+that+nobody+understood.+No+one+shared+his+interests,+and+he+was+a+little+ahead+of+his+time%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/oct/18/university-soul-freedom-of-ideas
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http://bobulate.com/post/1251478603/expert-versus-beginner
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http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html
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http://www.edutopia.org/tell-students-feed-their-brains
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http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2010/07/mark-vernon-on-changing-your-mind.html
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http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2010/mayjun/features/boroditsky.html
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http://www.adambossy.com/blog/2009/02/19/the-paradox-of-self-education/
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http://raamdev.com/the-pursuit-of-knowledge
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http://www.gaffta.org/2010/04/06/creative-spaces-and-innovation/
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http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/visionaries/DavidKelley
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http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/features/dweck.html
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http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/
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http://www.kottke.org/07/05/better-living-through-self-deception
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