What students say education is for
Sometime earlier this spring I asked the students in my Digital Cultures class to each write down a sentence (on a post-it) about …
Vita Peacock, “Academic precarity as hierarchical dependence”
Vita Peacock turns in a significant contribution to the growing literature on precarious academic labor with her “Academic precarity as hierarchical dependence …
Neha Vora, “Is The University Universal?”
This will be the first in a long series of pointers to recent literature in the field of ethnography of higher education. …
Overproduction as mass existentialism
Earlier this year, I observed that there are two kinds of scholarly overproduction, “herd” overproduction and “star” overproduction. I’d like to come …
Herd overproduction and star overproduction
I’ve been thinking about certain scholars who have written, for lack of a more precise way of putting it, a lot. The …