tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642432.post113105703857136354..comments2023-10-31T06:07:45.492-07:00Comments on mintcar: Found Magazine IIUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642432.post-1131676640743084692005-11-10T18:37:00.000-08:002005-11-10T18:37:00.000-08:00yikes!- and yum- "mutual masturbation within the d...yikes!- and yum- "mutual masturbation within the departments"... yumm.<BR/><BR/>when i say "pharmaceutical company", i think more about how the university regards itself as a factory that churns "knowledge", "po'duces" ideas, etc... and how it treats the funding process.<BR/><BR/>pharmaceutical companies seem to rationalize the high prices for their drug-products by saying, "we need mon-ayy for Research & Development! otherwise, how are we going to cure you of your god-forsaken AIDS and ovarian cancers, people???" they rationalize the gouging by hitting us "consumers" right back in the face, boomerang-style, with our own.. gah... "DEMAND" for cures (and "cures", to these corporations, seem to arrive only in the form of their drugs.)<BR/><BR/>gah! my stupid, rambling, mind-blowing analogy continues: our (students') tuition payments seem to contribute to some abstract Research & Development on the part of these worker-bees of professors we have..<BR/><BR/>bam! done typing. think I'll copy this to my own journal, jean. :pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642432.post-1131135947584910022005-11-04T12:25:00.000-08:002005-11-04T12:25:00.000-08:00students being the financial equivalent of patient...students being the financial equivalent of patients? i can totally feel you on the university as corporation thing (sucking the life blood out of students for years through loans). i can also agree with you that there's just a lot of insular intellectual mutual masturbation within the departments (including or particularly the ever vague social sciences, and the aggressive 'hard' sciences). for some reason, i didn't feel it was as serious in architecture -- though ego-stoking theory-generation is still prevalent -- because there is a lot of very practical and human-based problem-solving.<BR/><BR/>i definitely love the space that uni provides for debate, sparking of new ideas, creativity, and passing on valuable knowledge -- if only it had more balance between praxis and theory. and if only those were the clear goals.<BR/><BR/>(i was also thinking about the millions that one of our biology-related departments received from a monsanto-like biotech corporation several years ago. i think prof ignacio chapela protested it and was denied tenure at that time).<BR/><BR/>i don't think i have enough book knowledge (i guess design theory and urban theory is evolving in real time, so it's something i have to keep reading about to keep up with) ... but yeah -- you can't overload on it or it screws with your psyche!Miss Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036035128327996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642432.post-1131132982886082322005-11-04T11:36:00.000-08:002005-11-04T11:36:00.000-08:00this is the kind of thing i like about Mike Mills,...this is the kind of thing i like about Mike Mills, and about "Harriet the Spy".<BR/><BR/>i'm ready to leave school. it's becoming so clear to me that academia is an inbred corporation; the way it's financed reminds me of the way pharmaceutical companies are financed.<BR/><BR/>gah! everything i really need to "acquire" (in terms of "book knowledge"..), i think i got my full share of by the end of high school!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com