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The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
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A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think.
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Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.
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If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good.
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Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.
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Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.
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I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.
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If you're facing rejection right now, it's very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it's not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it's better than thinking that someone was out to get you.
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Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job.
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I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it.
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The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity.
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'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.
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I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.
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I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff.
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When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better.
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An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.
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I like being irritating.
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It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.
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It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.
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Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.
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An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.
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When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.
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Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.
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Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life.
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I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.
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'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'
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OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.
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In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.
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There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.
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I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.
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Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.
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Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?
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In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.
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