You probably can't make a case for "Usefulness" in research (that's not a bad thing -- your case for Interesting is much stronger for it!!), but I'd imagine you're not really pointless enough to warrant the annihilation of the entire discipline until you start talking about zombies and heterosexism, or post-apocalypse and white supremacy. (An acquiantance's MA thesis was recently flagged on the Michael Coren show for "uselessly" addressing white supremacy in feminism... or, um, indoctrinating future teachers with radical left gibberish, apparently. Yikes.) I think Mark's right tagging this as both an attack on English in general and a way to use "controversial" humanities research to exemplify "useless" ideas, politics, and people.
(Or to rephrase, I guess: I don't think it's about the literature, even the extra-"useless" pop culture stuff, but rather that certain kinds of literary research have a particular critical purpose that some folks are very deeply invested in saying doesn't exist. So those kinds of research are held of as examples of the humanities' uselessness, and the humanities' uselessness becomes proof that those kinds of research have no use. I hate that I can't edit comments when I figure out how to be articulate half an hour after opening my mouth...)
What's vexing is that so much valuable cultural production and scholarship is devoted precisely to critiquing the Utilitarian ideology that has been installed as "common sense." As Oscar Wilde said - in a pointedly political way - "all art is quite useless."
A recent issue of English Studies in Canada was devoted to responding to an analogous tirade against "useless" Humanities work, but this was - more predictably - by a corporate news columnist, Robert Fulford. (There's a special plane in Dante's Inferno set aside for the likes of him and Margaret Wente.) ESC's readers' forum in this issue handed Fulford's ass to him - assuming he bothered to read it.
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/ESC/issue/view/573
I like Pearson's response best: queer youth studies can indeed save lives. There's one superb example of what the fierce Humanities is "good for."
Dystopia now; guess it wasn't a Photoshop job after all.
This Alternet article shows a video of the incident.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/736372/video_of_cop_viciously_pepper-spraying_sitting_students_goes_viral/#paragraph5
Hey, look, sometimes Wordpress' Freshly Pressed section doesn't post vapid Life Section D-list crap. Here's something I just found there, the protest organizer's open letter to the UC Davis chancellor -- demanding her resignation.
You are responsible for the police violence directed against students on the UC Davis quad on November 18, 2011. As I said, I am writing to hold you responsible and to demand your immediate resignation on these grounds.
From what I was reading, these were campus police, not 'police' police.
Where podcasts have evolved I still think of them as audio content even though video podcasts seems to be growing. Never thought of it as talkiing ebooks. Streaming content fits with the definition of what a podcast is which used to include access it via an RSS feed.
To me, it's audio, but the 'cast' part implies a continuously (regularily or irrgularily) updated clip, about something that just happened around a topic (the reason for people to subscribe), plus an archive of old clips.
APPLE does provide a free open-source version - Darwin - of it commercial XNU/unix version. Thus free and non-restrictive:
Just need to do a few geek manipulaions to run Darwin on a PC Intel :
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-install-mac-os-x-on-a-pc-without-using-a-mac
Virtual:
http://www.puredarwin.org
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2012/07/install-mountain-lion-in-vmware
http://www.sysprobs.com/easily-run-mac-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-retail-on-pc-with-vmware-image
http://understandingexistence.net/2012/08/06/running-mac-os-x-lion-10-7-4-in-a-vm-virtual-machine
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