Good interview in Mute Magazine with Graham Harman, proponent of OOP, Speculative Realism offshoot. Of particular interest is the way he talks about entering academia.
M friend Allen is doing a phD at UCLA and is a gun at economics. This is a paraphrasing of his comments after I wrote to him regarding academia:
"Very few PhDs get academic jobs. Prob 5 or so in the latest year here of about 25. It is much worse in humanities. At least we end up with jobs. If you want to be an academic, you have to go to a good school. Regardless of the field. And even then, you need to kill. Killing means coming up with creative research that gets published. Grades don't matter at all. But it is a lot harder than you think (or at least I imagined) coming up with creative research that people care about.
I am only speculating but I think it was easier back then. I know it was easier to get into a good school so extrapolate from that and you get the conclusion. "
I guess this is actually the state of play and it is what makes me so tentative.
M friend Allen is doing a phD at UCLA and is a gun at economics. This is a paraphrasing of his comments after I wrote to him regarding academia:
ReplyDelete"Very few PhDs get academic jobs. Prob 5 or so in the latest year here of about 25. It is much worse in humanities. At least we end up with jobs. If you want to be
an academic, you have to go to a good school. Regardless of the field. And even then, you need to kill. Killing means coming up with creative research that gets published. Grades don't matter at all. But it is a lot harder than you think (or at least I imagined) coming up with creative research that people care about.
I am only speculating but I think it was easier back then. I know it was easier to get into a good school so extrapolate from that and you get the conclusion. "
I guess this is actually the state of play and it is what makes me so tentative.