Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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“A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn’t about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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Labor Under Capitalism

When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the v ery possibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocence to the settler, it entertains a settler future. Decolonize (a verb) and decolonization (a noun) cannot easily be grafted onto pre -existing discourses/frame works, even if they are critical, even... See more

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang • "Decolonization is not a metaphor"

Higher Ed Under Capitalism and Indigenous Perspectives

From “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Turk and K. Wayne Yang

What Is College For?

Andrew Delbanco discusses the purpose of college, highlighting economic benefits, political importance, and the value of liberal education in fostering individual growth and enhancing democratic citizenship.

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And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.

Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures

Community Design

As I age, the more convinced I am that the concept of “normal” is the most toxic thing in our culture.

Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

The Mythical Norm

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

The Mythical Norm

A broad definition of trauma is useful; an open-ended one isn’t | Psyche Ideas

Ahona Guha psyche.co

Emotions @ Work

Highlighting the consequences of an automatic society running amok, the late philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler suggested that successive ages of technological proletarianization since the 19th century have resulted in human losses first in the knowledge of how to make and do (savoir-faire), followed by the knowledge of how to live... See more

Ziyaad Bhorat • The Right To Be Free From Automation | NOEMA

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