slow turkey

(via melody doss on fb)

"One professor at the 134th MLA convention in January asked us to imagine an MA seminar with eight students in it. Of those eight, four will drop out, two will go on to complete PhDs and then find work outside academia, one will suffer as a short-contract academic worker, and the last will find work as a traditional tenured faculty member." (via aldaily) --I find all this mildly amusing: i don't really have a dog in this fight. The tradition i identify with, is something else. I belong with the lovers of books, & only with them (--which nilpertains what is said about the books by people who read them for reasons other than enjoyment).

The economics of extinction.