I've been watching the conversations around 's "Weak Theory" issue unfold from the sidelines and here is my take: sure is easy to claim weakness when you have tenure or TT job. The Q of weakness looks v different from the land of the contingent
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as far as I can see (and I may be wrong! if so correct me) the only piece to even address contingent labor as a form weakness is "Obliterature: Toward an Amateur Criticism" by Melanie Micir & Aarthi Vadde in the original issue
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Academia is filled with people who are structurally and thus literally weak. I am reminded once again of African-American teacher and scholar Thea Hunter who died this year of untreated but treatable illnesses.
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Privilege is a helluva drug.
Was it a year or two ago when FT faculty were praising the “slow professor” (or something like that) movement? Same vantage point of FT T/TT privilege to be able to slow down their 1-2 classes.
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Reflecting on tenure-stream faculty's inattention to the different conditions for precarious faculty to claim weakness, I see this as part of what I've called an "epistemology of tenured ignorance."
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'EPISTEMOLOGY OF TENURED IGNORANCE':
Ways of knowing that suppress critique of one's institutional position as a tenured academic
E.g., when an ideal of 'slow scholarship' obscures how tenured faculty's temporal privileges are bound up with other people's oppression
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