belatedly, more on the trouble with diversity...
Unable to keep up with The Valve in terms of topicality, I refer you to its discussion of Walter Benn Michaels' recent book, The Trouble with Diversity or How We Learned to Love Inequality which I read on the grueling r/t from Orange County to Philadelphia where we particpated in this event at Slought with Samuel Weber and Eduardo Cadava.
The event inspiring because of Sam's thinking about "Netwar, Networks and Narrative" from his book Targets of Opportunity which is in its own way, a critique of affirmative action hiring policies called "target of opportunity" policies that "targeted" minority candidates and created jobs for them out of diversity initiative funds.
No one at Slought was impolitic enough to mention this, but it does seem that Weber like Benn Michaels is asking to look again at what diversity means in the wake of its institutionalization.
Benn Michaels makes the argument that class is not a culture, and that cultural differences have usurped class differences as the only ones recognizable to institutions eager to congratulate themselves on the integrity of the meritocratic qualities.
Weber's argument is epistemological and has to do with targeting as a mode of thinking both the future and the other.
While the event was highly worthy, domestic air travel in economy class is pure masochism and makes me want to purchase every gadget in the Sky Mall catalogue in order to make me forget that I have been taken hostage.
The event inspiring because of Sam's thinking about "Netwar, Networks and Narrative" from his book Targets of Opportunity which is in its own way, a critique of affirmative action hiring policies called "target of opportunity" policies that "targeted" minority candidates and created jobs for them out of diversity initiative funds.
No one at Slought was impolitic enough to mention this, but it does seem that Weber like Benn Michaels is asking to look again at what diversity means in the wake of its institutionalization.
Benn Michaels makes the argument that class is not a culture, and that cultural differences have usurped class differences as the only ones recognizable to institutions eager to congratulate themselves on the integrity of the meritocratic qualities.
Weber's argument is epistemological and has to do with targeting as a mode of thinking both the future and the other.
While the event was highly worthy, domestic air travel in economy class is pure masochism and makes me want to purchase every gadget in the Sky Mall catalogue in order to make me forget that I have been taken hostage.
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