This is something a little bit different: a report on what I did this summer. So, it’s a new academic year. The chutzpah involved in asserting that a year—which by nature and convention is drawing to a close—should begin as the days shorten and the leaves start to turn, is considerable. The flip side of this insight, I suppose, is this: think about the institutions that have inspired or created calendars: the Roman Empire, the Church, Corporations, the MOON (Julian, Liturgical, Gregorian, Fiscal, Lunar) and then we can begin to see the achievement of the academy in building a world. I have always sort of understood why people get so exercised about what goes on in universities: education is important, what we do in “the academy” is, however goofy and self-important academics might be, serious, or gesturing towards seriousness.
What I did on my summer vacation
What I did on my summer vacation
What I did on my summer vacation
This is something a little bit different: a report on what I did this summer. So, it’s a new academic year. The chutzpah involved in asserting that a year—which by nature and convention is drawing to a close—should begin as the days shorten and the leaves start to turn, is considerable. The flip side of this insight, I suppose, is this: think about the institutions that have inspired or created calendars: the Roman Empire, the Church, Corporations, the MOON (Julian, Liturgical, Gregorian, Fiscal, Lunar) and then we can begin to see the achievement of the academy in building a world. I have always sort of understood why people get so exercised about what goes on in universities: education is important, what we do in “the academy” is, however goofy and self-important academics might be, serious, or gesturing towards seriousness.