Yesterday, I submitted my thesis manuscript. This sounds dramatic. Olà! Bravo! Applause! It doesn’t feel dramatic at all. It was disappointingly undramatic. Anti-climactic, even. No working through the night until the last moment. No crying and pulling out my hair. No losing weight, as some told me they did. I was sitting on the train […]
Tag: writing
The precarity of academia: On love, freedom, and matsutake mushrooms of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
This year is the last in my PhD studies. It’s too early to be ‘summing it up’, and I’m probably not ready to write this post, but I’m not sure I ever will be. Because this post is about love. How can one ever be ready to write about that? My five years of academic […]
On major revisions and their potential for radical liberation, or How to revise your first paper and not go mad(der)
This paper – sorry – blog post consists of two parts. One is confused ramblings of someone revising their first solo paper for an academic journal. The other is some practical advice – not from me, but from my peers, on how not to blow the word limit in the revision process and what to […]
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