https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/05/10/everything-is-going-great/ critical anthropology of academic culture Mon, 10 May 2010 21:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/05/10/everything-is-going-great/#comment-1247 Mon, 10 May 2010 21:54:10 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1405#comment-1247 Another interesting thing here is the normativity of institutional happiness and well-being that de Montlibert points out only to decry. Barbara Ehrenreich has recently drawn attention to the “cult of positive thinking” in America; it’s worth noting that big organizations, including universities, are apparently also required to “think positive,” at least in every public communication where they can get away with it.

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