https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/408318/director-institute-for-culture-and-society
Dear WSU,
You should totally give me this job, I couldn’t help but notice how little Paul James knew beyond the end of his own nose when I was being treated to his idea of supervision. I have a teaching qualification in addition to postgraduate history qualifications, and said psycho thug can’t even do pedagogy, let alone history. Other people around the postgrad hall out at Parramatta were like, he prefers hypotheticals and thought-experiments to empricism a lot huh. I was like, I’ll say, you should see trying to have a convo about history with a psycho narcissist who thinks he’s figured everything out already. He wants to know why Arrighi titled his magnum opus on the modern period since 1492 “The Long Twentieth Century” because centuries only have 100 years. I don’t think he even bothered to read the blurb. It was published by Verso, they seem to know what they’re doing. He’s a fucking moron. It’s amazing he got elevated to professor, he must be 3rd degree expert at dispensing wristies to university administrators by now.
Maybe not in those exact words, but that was the upshot.
I don’t have a doctorate but I do have 5000 copies sold of the book I published from my first attempt (Deakin decided to corroborate my findings instead of examining them, but then Springer had to have the manuscript peer reviewed prior to publication anyway).
I have an extensive research background, which I’m continuing to practise:
https://worldecology.info/volent-silence-framing-out-social-causes-of-climate-related-crises/
https://worldecology.info/the-neoliberal-technocracy-a-class-at-war-with-life/
You seem to go for “pick-me” types, so pick me! Pick me! hahaha. In all seriousness I haven’t had a steady job since you stomped my candidature and my name to save yourselves the trouble of having to be responsible. You gave me a scholarship before professional liars like Paul James got mad someone more competent than he was (not that hard really) were showing up the terminal shortcomings in his shit scholarship.
But then again being too smart for my own good is why that happens in the first place isn’t it, also the reason I get passed over for everything. You don’t want people who are smart and motivated, who are capable of innovating and evolving ideas, you want bootlickers and butt polishers and yes men who will enable the orthodoxy and the prevailing power structure, whatever the cost to anyone else. That’s what you get too. I have more intelligent and informed conversations with unlettered friends who read and haven’t dumped ethical core in the name of their own personal advancement.
You don’t meet many of those types around the neoliberal academy these days hey!
Oooo ooo pick me! Pick me! Pick me!
Cheers
Ben Debney
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