From the New Deal to the Raw Deal: 21st Century Poetics and Academic Labor
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Sep 14, 2013
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The corporate University today offers advanced degrees in the humanities, but, increasingly, contingent employment upon graduation, a development of what Rodrigo Toscano calls “the soft labor of investiture without return.” In “From the New Deal to the Raw Deal: 21st Century Academic Labor,” I argue that the survival of the humanities is contingent upon an awareness that knowledge production today exists within an exploitative wage-labor economy: what academic Cathy Wagner calls the “sharecropper estate” of academia.
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