August 2009

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Air control, Books

Representing horrorism

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At In the Middle, Karl Steel reviews Adriana Cavarero’s book Horrorism, which, as I understand it, seeks to reorient descriptions of violence from the perspective of its perpetrators to that of its victims. This part of the review seems like a good question to ask here: I suffer an even pettier annoyance when she writes: […]

Academia, Australia, Contemporary

A dispatch from Harvard by the Yarra

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[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] ‘Harvard by the Yarra’ is actually the University of Melbourne, Australia (the Yarra being the major river hereabouts, though the university is not actually anywhere near it). Some wag coined the phrase to describe (and deride) the aspirations implicit in the Melbourne Model, a radical overhaul of undergraduate teaching announced in 2007.

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