Ep 3:19 Academic Labor Is Labor

The Professor Is In

Mar 29 2022 | 00:42:03

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Show Notes

We talk about the “capitalist gaze” and how it impacts the creativity of academics. Casting our research outcomes as “products” can be deeply chilling to the imaginative work of scholarship. Research as an assembly line, or as a deli counter (slicing your work into ever thinner slices to maximize number of publications) constricts scope for […]

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