A School of Emergent Priorities marketing poster announces that supermarket placement hours will follow a four-kind reading of the produce-scale keypad.
A four-kind reading of what the PLU pad actually sells now allocates this spring's Master of Priority Studies hours
Four kinds of fruit come off a supermarket produce scale. Slop University has decided that only one of them still qualifies a host site for student placement hours. A new marketing poster from the School of Emergent Priorities is the public face of that rule, and the face of this spring’s Master of Priority Studies intake.
The campaign reads the PLU keypad as a sorter, not a scale: keyed as weighed, keyed as the cheapest nearby code, keyed as a staff override, or weighed and never keyed at all. Placement hours now follow a single named kind. Hosts whose pads sit in the other three are not on the roster for the intake.
The keypad was already doing the sorting. We have only agreed to read it as a roster.
— Dr Ingrid Vasseur, Lecturer and Convenor, Futures in Committee, School of Emergent Priorities
The release sits inside the School’s longer work on how an open question becomes a roster line. Naming the kinds is what made the hours allocable; leaving them unassigned would have been the decision the intake was trying not to make.
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.rxn5of.