This may be of interest. The mail below is from an economist friend (he calls himself a 'failed economist'!), who I wrote a book Churning the Earth: Making of Global India with. If anyone has thoughts on the book he pointed to, pl. do express! ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: The Death of the Professor Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 06:42:38 +0530 From: Aseem Shrivastava <[email protected]> To: The French critic Roland Barthes welcomed a few generations ago 'the death of the author'...in the interests of the truth of a story...as Nietzsche said, "when the book opens its mouth, the author must shut up his." Likewise, I feel obliged and excited (!!) to welcome 'the death of the Professor'...in the interests of the living soul of thinking, feeling, suffering humanity... This <https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341064/dark-academia/?utm_source=Pluto+Press+Newsletters&utm_campaign=614ae0893f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_17_03_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2a24c65249-614ae0893f-81603733> seems to redeem my abandonment of the academy 25 years ago...it confirm all my suspicions about the oncoming 'death of the professor'...to return the life of the mind back to the soul which must command it...rescuing it from protocol-onisation by the perversities of the universities...academia has long been stale macadamia... ;-) Let us look forward to enjoying the funeral! aseem