Post ALf1qIZLP25Bc1doOG by shusha@post.lurk.org
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 (DIR) Post #ALeT896LqSKz48r3YW by entreprecariat@post.lurk.org
       2022-07-19T14:11:36Z
       
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       Realistically, I won't write a detailed review, so I'll stick with a single paragraph one. This collection of easily-digestible short chapters is far from what I expected, namely the sort of psycho-apocalyptic prose of, say, Bifo. Instead is a pretty humane and intimate look into the author's experience as a teacher. At times, there are some cliches about smartphones in class, and the good old time of the classroom, but all in all, the whole book reads like an earnest conversation with a fellow teacher. What about "the depressed" then? The author argues that depression, in not only a pathological sense preceded the pandemic, having to do with the digitalization, corporatization, and adjunctification of education. And this is true for Europe as well, but there is a US specific aspect: the phenomenon is entangled with the faint white-noise alertness of mass shooting. I got some good tips and teaching techniques from the book, as well as a philosophical grounding for them, but what's special about it, is that it made me feel less lonely as an educator. Ok, in the end I wrote the whole instant review as I generally intend it eheh.
       
 (DIR) Post #ALf1qIZLP25Bc1doOG by shusha@post.lurk.org
       2022-07-19T20:40:37Z
       
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       @entreprecariat thanks for the review! This was helpful, I should do reviews more often too...
       
 (DIR) Post #ALg5gdhYZWDJET5lTM by entreprecariat@post.lurk.org
       2022-07-20T08:58:24Z
       
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       @shusha thank you! I'm trying to do it more often, also to see what sticks out of a book.