When we teach job applications in 202A, we have to have room for a certain variety of conventions in the different fields that make up the broad category of social sciences. This semester I got schooled in the latest hipster requirement in resumes for jobs in architecture: no capitalization. Anywhere. So this student spent a semester abroad in rome, italy. He expects to graduate from the pennsylvania state university. Word is madly trying to correct these sentences as I write them. My student told me that every visual poster and presentation in his field follows this anti-capitalization convention, and that everyone recognizes it as full-on pretention.
Is this a punny reference to Marxism? Is it a youth-cred nod to lowercase twitter-writing? Did the field of Architecture (sorry, architecture) borrow the concept from bell hooks, perhaps? If so, she’s probably not real happy to have a a point about equality used for such pretentious purposes. On the other hand, the student’s resume did look really cool.