Dead Professors Society
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Jan 29, 2021
Alan Levine does the journalism that Slate didn't bother to do before publishing a story about a dead professor teaching a class. No such thing, Levine finds. They're simply using video lectures the deceased docent recorded for another class to be taught online before this pandemic thing made everybody teach online. According to Slate, "The fact that the dead can literally replace living faculty members is a perfect metaphor for what is happening across higher education." As Levine argues, it's nothing of the kind. But like Slate, I'm not one to let reality interfere with my off-the-cuff musing. Why can't the dead teach classes? They'd never be late (well, except in that sense), would never have controversial opinions about current events, and would grade with robot-like dispassion and precision.
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