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<p>This may be of interest. <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>If anyone has thoughts on the book he pointed to, pl. do express!
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<p>ashish <br>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">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."<br>
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<div
style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Likewise,
I feel obliged and excited (!!) to welcome 'the
death of the Professor'...in the interests of the
living soul of thinking, feeling<span
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">,
suffering</span> humanity...</div>
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<div
style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><a
href="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"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">This</a>
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... ;-)</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Let
us <span class="gmail_default"
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forward</span> to enjoy<span
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">ing</span>
the funeral!</div>
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