Book of Demons instal1/6/2024 ![]() The present investigation is also autobiographical in a more specific sense. In short, we academics live out the contradictions of neoliberalism every day. ![]() The academic workforce faces increasing precarity and shrinking wages even as it is called on to teach and assess more students than ever before in human history-and to demonstrate that we are doing so better than ever, via newly devised regimes of outcome-based assessment. We must therefore “do more with less,” cutting costs while meeting ever-greater demands. ![]() Yet at the same time, colleges and universities have suffered the fate of all public goods under the neoliberal order. Our institutions are foundational to neoliberalism’s claim to be a meritocracy, insofar as we are tasked with discerning and certifying the merit that leads to the most powerful and desirable jobs. We academics occupy a crucial node in the neoliberal system. Every academic critique of neoliberalism is an unacknowledged memoir. ![]()
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