[PeDAGoG] Fwd: The Death of the Professor

Sat May 29 10:39:42 CEST 2021

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-british-university
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 <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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