Work
- Dean of Undergraduate StudiesJuly 2011 to presentDetroit, MichiganI work in Academic Affairs in an administrative capacity and teach visual culture and other liberal arts courses to art and design undergraduates and MFA students.
- Publisher2010 to presentDetroit, MichiganI write about art & culture in Detroit + other stuff that strikes my fancy.
- LecturerSeptember 2009 to December 2011Rochester Hills, MichiganI taught sociology and media studies.
Education
- Class of 2015PhDSociologyNew York, New York
- Sep 2000 to 2005MALiberal StudiesNew York, New York
- Class of 1975Art PracticeEast Lansing, Michigan
- Class of 1971Roseville, Michigan
- Detroit, Michigan
Current City and Hometown
Royal Oak, MichiganCurrent city
Detroit, MichiganHometown
About Vince
- I write about art, culture, & other stuff.
I'm a writer primarily because it's the only thing I can't seem to stop doing. (As one of my New School professors, the late, great Christopher Hitchens, used to say, "It's a sickness, and there's no known cure.") I toil as a college administrator and professor but I don't consider myself a scholar. However, I do embrace the designation intellectual. I've been a corporate suit, a factory rat, a construction worker, a designer, off and on an artist (though I prefer the term cultural producer), a drive-in theater concession stand cashier (best summer job ever), and in the 1970s I played tenor sax in a blue-eyed soul band.
Favorite Quotes
- "I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." -- Antonio Gramsci, Letter from Prison, 19 December 1929
Definition of an intellectual: "an expert whose expertise is unwanted by the society at large." -- Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." -- Walter Benjamin
"The idea is one thing, what happens is another." -- John Cage
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