{"id":2033,"date":"2013-07-08T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2013-07-08T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:58:35","slug":"fetishized-and-degraded-academic-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2013\/07\/08\/fetishized-and-degraded-academic-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetishized and degraded academic labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The precarity of academic workers, far from being a merely local or institutional problem in academia, indicates the foundational contradiction of universities&#8217; missions in neoliberalizing times: the university becomes an instrument for <i>fetishizing labor, fetishizing work<\/i> at the same time as it <i>degrades and undermines labor, degrades and undermines work, making it unavailable, destroying it. It destroys precisely that which it calls for creating.<\/i><b><i> <\/i><\/b>Though of course some would argue that the neoliberal desire for labor is precisely for precarious, flexible labor, so in that sense the university produces that which it models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The precarity of academic workers, far from being a merely local or institutional problem in academia, indicates the foundational contradiction of universities&#8217; missions in neoliberalizing times: the university becomes an instrument for fetishizing labor, fetishizing work at the same time as it degrades and undermines labor, degrades and undermines work, making it unavailable, destroying it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}