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The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Twelve: Tenure All of your academic skills having been honed through these other steps, ...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Eleven: Teaching Teaching is a necessary evil on the track to success. To legitimate yo...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Ten: Your Work/Volume Now that you have found an editor and publisher willing to "lo...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Nine: Hustling Do you know how many academic books are published every year? Do you kno...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Eight: Hitting the Job Market Often the most frustrating experience for young academic wa...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Seven: Writing Your C.V. Everyone must have a c.v. (curriculum vitae), which lists achi...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Six: Follow these Conference Attending Guidelines There are two kinds of conferences: ext...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Five: Stomp On Others Look, it's you or them. Human beings are animals, animals o...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Four: Schmoozing The importance of schmoozing can hardly be underestimated, and it hardly...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Three: Go On -- Take Drugs! The initial euphoric and mind-expanding effects of intoxican...

The 12-Step Program for Academic Success Step Two: Hire Out Your Emotional Life The pressures of Big Time Academia have crushed many o...

Back in grad school, I wrote this satire, mainly as a response to some rather overly careerist behavior I witnessed. I'll post one step ...

I have just now submitted an article on body/embodiment to Studia Phaenomenologica . I am fairly confident I won't get published, and he...

Before coming to school today (and installing my new column - check it out on Facebook!), I collected a couple days' worth of mail from ...

Today with my classes I'm reading a 2003-ish article about public policy and ethical responses to pregnant women who use illegal drugs a...

I went on a brief walk just after my office hour this morning, since I had been reading about phenomenology of the body and wanted to clear ...

After bouts of stomach flu and grading, I'm having an average weekend. Following a gratuitous Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet referenc...

Jackson asked me what my ethical position is, in relation to the practice of consuming the flesh of non-human animals. I realized that it wa...

I have a prevailing dissatisfaction with Western philosophy: its obsession with words. In a basic way, philosophy is how we grapple with mea...

Today I submitted an article to an actual, honest-to-Pete peer-reviewed academic journal, something I haven't done in nearly a decade, f...