Prof Ian Pace

Excellent piece by @ObhishekSaha on why allowing the judgment in Sussex vs OfS to stand will murky the waters with respect to HEFSA. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-su…

Part 2: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/3749…

My two-part @CAmericain_mag article 'The Art of Judgment' is now available full open-access. It's something of a new departure for me, in the extent to which it attempts to marry the intellectual and the personal. Part 1 here, Part 2 in comment below. openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/3749…

Éric Rohmer made filmmaking look deceptively effortless. The natural light, the quiet framing, the casual movement of people through spaces. His movies feel so light and unforced that you almost miss how carefully controlled every emotion actually is.

I limit my posts on here ever since it became X. But I think it’s worth announcing this: I just signed with @routledgebooks to publish my book on #GordonGreen #British #pianist and pedagogue and of great import in the 20th c. @houghhough @MTirimo

This Friday - #NorthernSoulSB hits cinemas ... here's the full list ... including me reminiscing about the dancing, the fashion, the music and the ProPlus 😉 #theatrical" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">northernsoulfilm.com/#theatrical

This is the single most shocking testimony I have ever seen.  Even more shocking is that so many people that I (& probably you) know decided on that day that the people behind this perversion deserved their active public support. It is hard to have any faith in humanity when we see how easily large groups of people can be manipulated into supporting activities too cruel and disgusting even for the devil. And not because they understand it, but simply because they see that as the fashionable position to take.

In Stamford Hill 🇬🇧, outside a Jewish boys’ school, a female suspect punched a visibly Jewish school boy, shouting antisemitic slurs. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault. Jewish kids are not safe. Violence against any person is unacceptable, but violence against children is a different low. This needs to end.

Harold Bloom on his understanding of his role as a professor of literature:

Ceci y Williams afirman en este artículo que existe una narrativa dominante en la academia y los medios científicos que afirma que hay un sesgo generalizado contra las mujeres en prácticamente todos los aspectos de la carrera académica (contratación, grants, publicaciones, salarios, ascensos, evaluaciones, etc.). Sin embargo, según los autores, esta narrativa no se sostiene cuando se revisa la evidencia científica más sólida. En muchos casos, la realidad es la contraria: paridad o ventaja a favor de las mujeres. «Nuestra idea controvertida es que la comprensión de la gente sobre el sexismo contra las mujeres en la ciencia académica está siendo deliberadamente controlada y moldeada por aquellos que tienen un interés político y personal en la narrativa.» «Desafiar la narrativa de género debería formar parte del discurso científico normal; sin embargo, hacerlo a menudo provoca una reacción violenta, como documentan los testimonios de investigadores que han sido atacados.»

Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families trib.al/olj7tnv

"We now have the absurd situation where the limits of philosophical inquiry are set by the most emotionally fragile students at each university." (despite high level commitments to academic freedom) Nathan Cofnas - who lost his belief discrimination case against Cambridge University and is appealing.

By Alan Sokal in @JConIdeas Academic freedom, no-platforming, and appeals to "disciplinary competence'': A critical analysis of Simpson--Srinivasan's arguments Simson and Srinivasan's paper argued that it might be justifiable to no-platform Germaine Greer "If ascendant trends in feminist theory continue, it is possible that Greer’s trans­exclusionary views might one day be rejected by all credentialed experts in the relevant humanities or social science disciplines." journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/6/1/318

Excellent thread

‘a purely algorithmic verdict on a musical performance or a piece of scholarly argument would not be a purer version of evaluation, but a limited and inferior thing: precisely the displacement of phronēsis by technē that the opening of this essay argued against.’

Nowadays you get too many employed in academia who have never really had to properly defend their ideas and work, or been rigorously questioned. These are those how protest for the need for ‘safe spaces’ when they first encounter such a thing. youtu.be/sXQkXXBqj_U?si…

I’ve had a few very bad reviews in the press. If honest, I know some of the criticism was not unfounded. No right-of-reply, of course. I survived. When I write a harsh review of a book, no attempt to address my arguments, just a long period protesting that it is published at all.

It is not sufficient to endlessly denigrate critics, but then cite them enthusiastically when they write good things about your work. They have a job to do, and have to do so independently. cafeamericainmag.com/the-art-of-jud…

[Writings saying evaluation is illegitimate, especially of female/minority intellectual/artistic work] communicates: ‘a broader sense of entitlement, in which the evaluator’s function is redefined from scrutinizing the work to supporting the scholar.’ cafeamericainmag.com/the-art-of-jud…

‘insulating work from evaluation, on identity grounds, renders the work of female or minority scholars simultaneously protected and diminished, placed beyond the full regard that genuine evaluation implies’ cafeamericainmag.com/the-art-of-jud…