Author: lavi
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Good writing, if you can make it
I recently read a very nice book that I cannot recommend highly enough: “Good Work If You Can Get It. How to Succeed in Academia” by Jason Brennan (2020) It’s written in a witty and funny style but very realistic. The reality behind the academic training programmes (aka the graduate schools) is grim: almost “80,000…
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What makes a philosophical work worth sharing with others?
One of the most feared ones by junior scholars is the following “but is this philosophical work?”. Often used to exclude and to gate-keep newbies, the question touches a painful point. How do we actually know that what we are doing is philosophy and not, say, a mix of literature commentary, with some cultural critique…
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On the Possibility of a Digital University. My first book was just published
I just published my first book: On the Possibility of a Digital University: Thinking and Mediatic Displacement at the University. It is a revised and abridged version of my PhD thesis defended at KU Leuven in 2018 with a beautiful forward written by Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons. The book can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030659752…