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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Kia ora Ashish et al</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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!) <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Peter Fleming is from New Zealand but
his academic career thus far has all been overseas. I have his
book <i>The Death of Homo Economicus</i>, and it is good value,
so I am sure<i> Dark Academia</i> 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 <i>Someone Else's Country </i>(1996) -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996">https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996</a>, and<i>
A Civilised Society</i> (2006) -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-civilised-society-2006">https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-civilised-society-2006</a> - and it
has yet to recover.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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) - <i>Whackademia:
An Insider’s Account of the Troubled University</i> (2013) and <i>Selling
Students Short; Why you won’t get the university education you
deserve</i> ( 2015) <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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<i>
Radical Philosophy</i> - <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><i>Neoliberal antiracism and the
British university</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/neoliberal-antiracism-and-the-british-university">https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/neoliberal-antiracism-and-the-british-university</a></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">is well worth a read for the grasping
the complexities of the situation.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Christine<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/05/21 6:38 pm, Ashish Kothari
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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! <br>
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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
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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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suffering</span> humanity...</div>
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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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forward</span> to enjoy<span
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the funeral!</div>
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