Articles by Lewis R. Gordon
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THE MARKET COLONIZATION of INTELLECTUALS
Lewis R. Gordon - Truthout,
12 Apr 2010
Securing a job is the rhetorical trump that legitimizes the entire process. In the academy, it leads to a strange logic: The best way to get a job is to have one. Thus, many academics and by extension many public academic intellectuals are perpetually on the job market. Market potentiality governs everything they produce. In the academy, nothing is more marketable than the reputation of being smart. This makes sense: No one wants dumb intellectuals.
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