But here, via Sisyphus, is their "political statement":
This edit is not malicious, but is rather our own attempt to make a political statement against the current misguided importance placed on academic job searches.
Please be so advised.
Oh my fucking god, that's stupid. Listen, fucktards, when you write a manifesto, it's supposed to, you know, explain your views. Marx and Engels did it, and so did the Port Huron Statement SDS guys. Jesus, even the Unibomber filled a few pages. But what the fuck does this explain? Why is the "importance placed on academic job searches" misguided? The importance placed by who? What the fuck are we supposed to be "so advised" about here? That all y'all are fucktards?
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Perhaps it's misguided because the job search only determines our careers, our hometowns, our colleagues, our general level of well-being, and our general sense of self-worth. But after that, I'm not sure what we get out of our academic careers and lives!
Sounds about right..
The only reason I can imagine for deleting the wiki: by not having a wiki, people won't be wasting as much time checking the wiki, measuring themselves against others, etc.
However, even if this is right, and I'm by no means convinced of that, it's still amazingly paternalistic.
I like how deleting the wiki is referred to as an "edit".
I'm not going to entirely reject the possibility that they're just deleting the wiki to fuck with us, and putting a silly statement of principle up to fuck with us more.
We will not be silenced! Forget trashing university (employment) websites, or sabotaging the APA, AAR, or other professional organizations' websites that publish job information. Forget crashing the Chronicle's website or HERC websites. Them's small potatoes. We're gonna muster ALL of our hacker powers to mess with your wikis, one of the most difficult styles of site to delete/edit/destroy!
And next time, we're going even MORE big-time. We're gonna create a MySpace page and invite you all to be our friends! HAHAHA! That will show you!
Curious how the problem is with the misguided importance attached to academic job *searches* rather than academic jobs themselves. It's as if departments are getting positions just so they can go have themselves a jolly old search.
I actually know some philosophers who would do something like this for "political" reasons. When I heard about the vandalism, their names immediately popped into my head as possible culprits.
'fucktard' is my new favorite word!!
Although their move is stupid, I must admit that when it first happened I thought it probably was being done out of frustration with the system and not by some malicious teenage kids. Often exploitation incindiates such acts.
So, what is everyone's view about the Eastern APA this year? I have interviews in 3 different hotels; one which is almost a mile away from the Marriot Waterfront. I have a feeling that it may be a disaster. Many people think that they will be interviewing at the Mariott, but this is not to be assumed. Also, there are travel considerations.
I'm sure it's easy enough to get a cab from the Marriott to the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, which is 0.8 miles away. I've got one hour between an interview at the former and an interview at the latter, and I think this will give me plenty of time to get there, relax, gather my thoughts, and freak out anew.
'Fucktard' is also my new favorite word.
I like "Fucktard" as my new favorite insult, and "Fuckalicious" as my new favorite....
Whoa. I'm just now going back through these old posts to see what hilarity I missed before I discovered Brian Leiter's blog. "All y'all are..."??
Now y'all have seriously endangered your anonymity. Only a born'n'bred Southerner knows how to properly construct the universal second person plural. Hot damn! Y'all might be my windowless-office mates already.
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