Re: Re: Re: farewell to academe

[Doug Henwood]

Christian Gregory wrote:

>What is different about the most recent phase of university corporatization
>is its willingness to reduce everything to the market's stupidest forms of
>calculation

Seems to me that the American university, as it evolved from the late 
19th century until about 20 years ago, was characterized by a partial 
autonomy from what Keynes called the Benthamite contraption; sure 
professors were ultimately in the pay of the bourgeoisie and operated 
within the strictures of bourgeois discourse, but there were several 
layers between the prof and the boss's accountants. Now you've got 
people trying to measure teacher productivity.

Doug