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Jeffrey J Cohen

@jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social

writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com

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Sam Mickey@sammickey.bsky.social · 3y ago

Wonderful definition of metaphor from Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: “A conveyance device that is at once linguistic, story-laden, thingly, and agentic, a metaphor is an ontological sliding, a tectonic veer, materiality coming in and out of figure, ‘matterphor.’” (Stone, p. 4)

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Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The report acknowledges many of its own weaknesses, such as its thin evidentiary foundation upon which to rest such strong and confident conclusions.” I highly recommend reading his discussion of the report in full: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-spe...

On the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences

On the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences

futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More on the Vanderbilt report. In “The Nature of the Problem” section, the authors claim that “liberal skew in the professoriat” plays a role in “discouraging full participation in academia on the part of students who find themselves culturally and politically alienated from their professors.”

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reading the State of Scholarship Report left me with the same feeling I had when leading disinformation work at SSRC and people said "I love democracy but I'm really worried about voter fraud." This report is "I love the humanities but I'm really worried about scholarly standards.”

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The belief that every field in the humanities is secretly controlled by social justice warriors has always been a false conspiracy theory, but to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion.”

JJohn K. Wilson@johnkwilson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Letter | Preconceived Beliefs Plague Humanities Report

Its authors committed one of the faults they criticize most sharply, writes Joy Connolly.

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Jeffrey J Cohen@jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fellow academics, it would be easy to reject the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences out of hand but I tried to find what is most of value within it: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-spe...

On the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences

On the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences

futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com

Jeffrey J Cohen@jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This book turned thirty (!!!) this year and a new version will be released with more than 20 fresh essays this cover is so 1990s -- the challenge for the new book is to find a way to cite it without being stuck in its design

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