“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, November 11, 2012

What Is Toby Miller On?

In his rather dull just-another-puff-piece for cultural and media studies, Toby Miller suggests that humanities majors are declining. Well that's odd, because everywhere I've worked, the science departments were funded in large part by humanities majors (in particular in English).

I'm sick and tired of these crass utilitarian arguments—it's not popular, so "blow it up." Bollocks. Universities must be places where people study what isn't popular.

1 comment:

Bill Benzon said...

Universities must be places where people study what isn't popular.

yes.

'Cause one day what's not popular may save your sorry water-logged ass in a way you're too dull to imagine.