<editorial board> <agu> The Double Crisis of the University and the Global Economy
Andrew Ross
andrew.ross at nyu.edu
Fri Dec 26 16:30:54 CET 2008
Gary's caveats all make sense to me. The seasonal rallying cry of our ruling elites appears to be "Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear"
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Andrew Ross
Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Hall <gary at garyhall.info>
Date: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:30 am
Subject: Re: <editorial board> <agu> The Double Crisis of the University and the Global Economy
To: Edu-Factory Editorial Board <agu at listcultures.org>
> I like the the idea of just using the concept of edu-factory as it is,
> too.
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> As well as taking care over the language we use to describe and think
>
> about the 'crisis', shouldn't we also interrogate the very idea of
> their
> being a crisis? (It always make my cautious when I find myself
> adopting
> the same discourse as The New York Times, the BBC, CNN and so on.) Is
>
> there a crisis? In what sense? Who says so? What is their interest in
>
> doing so? I'm just very wary of what Merleau-Ponty called the 'trap of
>
> the event'.
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> In terms of thinking of it as a theme for the zero issue, we should
> also
> probably bear in mind that a lot of journal issues will be coming out
>
> over the next few months on the subject of the current crisis or some
>
> variation of it.
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> Gary
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