Diagramming Chen Qiufan’s story “Year of the Rat” (for talk at Changsha conference)
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Diagramming Chen Qiufan’s story “Year of the Rat” (for talk at Changsha conference)
Academic Book Proposals: All Your Questions, Answered This is by far the most useful post I’ve found on this subject.
5 Types of Bullshit Jobs, with David Graeber DAVID GRAEBER: I’ve been doing a sort of research project where I made up a Gmail account called doihaveabsjoborwhat@gmail.com. I’d been advertising on Twitter. I’ve got about 250 testimonies now. I have broken them down into five basic types. There are flunky jobs, which are basically people…
Fuck Work: What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed that the market in labour, where we go to find work, has been relatively…
seriously bummed about my summer vacation, and not going home to the states again this year. I think I’ll fill up the queue, take more pills, and try to sleep through the rest of it.
[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation Oh, I guess they did publish it.