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Category Archives: Oxford
The Excluded Standpoint: The Work of Malcolm Bull
Malcolm Bull (b. 1960) holds the post of Professor of Art and the History of Ideas at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, where he teaches the history and theory of visual culture since 1900. He is a … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Oxford
Oxford’s leaders believe their institution’s eight hundred year continuity represents an unbroken tradition of intellectual excellence whose accumulated wisdom justifies Oxford’s claim to a distinctive authority in shaping how educated people across the world understand knowledge, governance, and human possibility … Continue reading
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Decoding Oxford Analytica
David Young arrived in Oxford in 1974 as an American expatriate seeking a quiet exit from the wreckage of the Nixon administration. Before he became a fellow at All Souls, he had served in the White House Special Investigations Unit, … Continue reading
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Decoding Oxford University Press
Gemini says: Oxford University Press operates as the ultimate high-status tag in the academic alliance system. Using David Pinsof’s framework, you can see OUP not just as a printer of books but as a central node in a vast prestige-laundering … Continue reading
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Decoding Oxford
Oxford University operates a “Guild Alliance” model that prioritizes historical continuity and the training of a political clerisy. Within the framework of Alliance Theory, Oxford functions as a coordination point for the British and global administrative elite. It uses a … Continue reading
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Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
Simon Kuper writes this 2022 book: * Britain does have world-class scientists, engineers and quants, but they are stuck in the engine room while the rhetoricians drive the train. Modern Oxford has specialised in producing the politicians and civil servants … Continue reading
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
John Carey writes in this 1993 book: * This book is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to the new phenomenon of mass culture. It argues that modernist literature and art can be seen as a hostile reaction … Continue reading
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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life (2014)
John Carey writes: I suppose I could be accused of reducing these great novels to picture shows, and that’s probably true. They did seem primarily visual to me. When, later, I saw the 1956 film of War and Peace I … Continue reading
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