- Peer-review, schmeer review. Research is for dissemination by a) Twitter and b) press release into the mid-market tabloids for the high-flyers. The rest lines my hamster-cage.
- Conferences are for food, warmth, networking, drinking and showing off the latest thing in professorial shorts.
- Note-taking is verboten. Kindles and iPads are where it's at.
- Theory is a weapon, not a tool. Use it to crush your enemies. I spit on your Irigaray. Taste my Butler!
- Permanent jobs are a disciplinary tool wielded by institutions to make us conform. We love dodging conductors and renewing railcards into our forties as we slog from provincial institution to provincial institution.
- As Gore Vidal said, it isn't enough to succeed, others must fail.
- Will teach anything, for food.*
- That 31st paper in the Blackburn University Review of Semiotic Transformations will make us academic catnip.
- We're not paid to read books. We teach them. There's a difference.
- We've read so much we're no longer sure of anything. But, hey, we're postmodern, so we're cool with that.
- EVERYTHING is a text.
*I've taught English, Media, Cultural Studies, Communications, American Studies, Politics, History and Sociology.
