#neoliberaluniversity

[abarfulstrife]

When overwork is the norm across the academic food chain. Criptheuniversity.

[seaisrisn]

When these kinds of assaults on collective consciousness and action are combined with neoliberalism’s displacement of democratic values in ordinary political discourse, with dramatic disinvestment in public education, and with the governance-based substitution of efficacy for accountability in economic and political policy, the result is not simply the erosion of popular power, but its elimination from a democratic political imaginary.

—Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos : Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (Zone Books: Near Futures, 2015)

[seaisrisn]

You have asked me to speak to you today about literary criticism, and so we might note that the conditions ravaging our profession are also ravaging our work.

Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech, Kevin Birmingham, 10/19/2016, Iowa City

http://www.kevinbirmingham.net/research/