Kia ora Ashish et al I afraid that Mark Twain's words on hearing of an erroneous obituary when he was merely out of the US - "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - is probably more accurate here (though I hate to disappoint Aseem!) Peter Fleming is from New Zealand but his academic career thus far has all been overseas. I have his book /The Death of Homo Economicus/, and it is good value, so I am sure/Dark Academia/ will be too. He wouldn't survive in academia in NZ for one second. It was left cowering by the neoliberal Blitzkrieg (the word actually used by the Labour Party Minister of Finance in the 1980s), as documented by film-maker Alistair Barry in /Someone Else's Country /(1996) - https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996, and/A Civilised Society/ (2006) - https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-civilised-society-2006 - and it has yet to recover. On the same theme, and from Australia, I can recommend these books by Richard Hil (Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Gold Coast, and Honorary Associate at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney) - /Whackademia: An Insider’s Account of the Troubled University/ (2013) and /Selling Students Short; Why you won’t get the university education you deserve/ ( 2015) I could go on with American and Canadian sources on the same subject, but that is probably more than enough. Except this excellent article by Rahul Rao in/Radical Philosophy/ - /Neoliberal antiracism and the British university/ https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/neoliberal-antiracism-and-the-brit... is well worth a read for the grasping the complexities of the situation. Christine On 29/05/21 6:38 pm, Ashish Kothari wrote:
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
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