tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post6679050158745501080..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: My MFA problemMark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-21876959716063325222010-10-16T13:10:12.588-04:002010-10-16T13:10:12.588-04:00Mark,
I think it's important to remember--as ...Mark,<br /><br />I think it's important to remember--as I always say, in nearly every article I write on the MFA degree--that the MFA is a "largely-unmarketable, non-professional art school degree." Consequently, the purpose of the rankings is to encourage programs to fund students (and do other things that applicants care about, like emphasizing studio work and a three-year flexible curriculum) not to help anyone get a job because (say) they went to the #11 program instead of the #42 program. That's really beside the point -- the rankings are intended for <em>applicants only</em>, i.e. to help them understand which programs are best at offering applicants what <em>applicants</em> report they care about, not for the benefit of professors, employers, &c. I realize everything in life has contained within it the possibility for its misuse and misunderstanding, but that doesn't change the fact that the rankings are not conceived of, nor designed as, the sort of cultural artifact you seem to presume they are.<br /><br />Best,<br />SethSeth Abramsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-21972379730189407342010-10-12T09:24:55.973-04:002010-10-12T09:24:55.973-04:00one tends to become
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see...one tends to become <br />what they <br />pretend to be<br /><br />seems to me <br />now that I am a <br />Famous Poet/Artist<br />that I can posit WITH Authority AND Credentials<br /><br />; the poem is what the words do &<br /><br />the painting IS what the paint does...<br /><br />"teach" (me) that red is yellow? that green is blue?<br /><br />... not necessary to pimp or to prostitute ...."self" the field has become over-crowded, over-credentialized, over-valued and over-over!<br /><br /><br />-Kokkie-san<br /><br /><br />next thing you'll find? that some University will take over everything literary and archive things on a Super Blog ...<br /><br />I think Penn State is now so doing... they just took over Tranter's JACKET ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com