Tag: education
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The Earned Advantage, and Why the Middle Class’s Own Story Makes Its Defence Indefensible An advantage that is earned cannot be defended. The defence is the confession that it was not earned. I. THE STORY The middle class has a story about itself, and the story is about time. It is the story of deferred…
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STREAMLINED PATHWAYS, FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENTS, AND SUPPORT ZONES FOR INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES IN EUROPE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States, with Speculative Urban Models INTRODUCTION The previous post established the portable visa as anti-capture technology: a legal design that decouples the right to remain from the continuation of a…
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HOW FEMINISM WAS USURPED, REPRODUCTION WAS CAPTURED, AND THE INSTITUTION BECAME AN ADVERSARIAL PLAYER IN THE MATING MARKET Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: Anglo-American Core, with EU/French Counterpoint INTRODUCTION The previous diagnostic report established the genealogy of Total Institutional Adsorption: Ford’s Sociological Department (1914), the secularized risk-management turn of…
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There is a recurring argument in Finnish political debate, heard most often from the conservative fringe but occasionally from mainstream figures as well: “We don’t need immigration. We just need to educate our own people.” It sounds reasonable. It sounds patriotic. It also collides, at terminal velocity, with the numbers. This is not an opinion.…
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History has been made. For the first time ever, there’s a commercial spaceflight training course recognized by the European & U.S. higher education systems, as well as all of the Western space agencies including CNES, ESA and NASA! I attended the very first opening webinar outlining the course structure and curriculum for the foundational module,…