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Dispossessing academics: The shift to ‘appropriation’ in the governing of academic life:
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In this paper, a critical theoretical exploration of the transformation of academic life that is currently taking place under the sign of "neoliberalization" is presented. The main aim is to differentiate...Abstract:
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Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition: Towards New Forms of Engagement with the World?
TL;DR: The main purpose of as mentioned in this paper is to examine the validity of the contention that, over the past decades, we have been witnessing the rise of the "posthuman condition" in the human brain.
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‘Globalizing’ academics? Ranking and appropriation in the transformations of the world-system
TL;DR: In an historical materialist analysis as discussed by the authors, the authors challenge the dominant understanding of global academic rankings as "inevitable" and "here to stay" and instead treat rankings as his
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Tolling academics: Rent-seeking and gatekeeping in the university space:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors delved into the operations of academic life with the aim of expanding critical vocabularies, analytical categorical features, and analytical categoric features.
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Controlling academics: Power and resistance in the archipelago of post-COVID-19 audit regimes
TL;DR: The government response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic promises to entrench austerity politics deeper into the organization of academic life, and audit regimes are the likely means of achieving this as discussed by the authors.
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Probationary or Second-Class Citizens? Postdoctoral Experiences in the Swiss Context
TL;DR: In this article, the academic citizenship experiences of postdoctoral researchers in the Swiss context are analyzed, and the contradictory expectations placed on early-career academics, together with their implications for the gendering of academic citizenship more generally, are discussed.
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Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the analytic and textual practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its impact on anthropological self-accountability, ethics, and the problem of meaning.
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The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis
TL;DR: The growth within the capitalist world-economy of the industrial sector of production, the so-called industrial revolution, was accompanied by a very strong current of thought which defined this change as both a process of organic development and of progress.
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In the social factory? Immaterial labour, precariousness and cultural work
Rosalind Gill,Andy C. Pratt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a special section concerned with precariousness and cultural work, bringing into dialogue three bodies of ideas: the work of the autonomous Marxist laboratory, activist writings about precariousness, and the emerging empirical scholarship concerned with the distinctive features of cultural work.
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The Capitalocene, Part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis
TL;DR: The authors argues for the centrality of historical thinking in coming to grips with capitalism's planetary crises of the twenty-first century, arguing that historical thinking is essential to the understanding of the Anthropocene.
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What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays
TL;DR: The three essays collected in this paper offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time.