[PeDAGoG] Fwd: The Death of the Professor

Sat May 29 08:38:15 CEST 2021

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

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Subject: 	The Death of the Professor
Date: 	Fri, 28 May 2021 06:42:38 +0530
From: 	Aseem Shrivastava <muftkigupshup at gmail.com>
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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