Academic Time
Labour Day is late this year which means that we start school later this year as well. A lot of folk that I have talked to this week have referred to this week as some sort of bonus "found" time. Yet most people would admit that if we would have started school this week, very few would have been ready, from the teaching teams, to the students, to the staff. Because academic time is weird; it will always expand to fill space. I have been thinking a lot about time this week. And of course of Bergsonian duree and the right-nowness of experiencing time that seems to somehow be forgotten or at least not priviledged in the memory sort of way (instead of the due date sort of way that tends to be the nature of "now-ness" in academe). I am trying to be a bit more aware of the duree of academe this term and how that connects to the sensory and the relational. I am teaching again this term and I am very excited about that. It is a course that will allow me to continue to mod...