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Toward an Epicurean Scholarly Practice
To be a scholar is to accept certain ascetic practices—this is an economic constraint as well as a voluntary and cultic self-discipline. The economic constraint comes via several forms of artificial scarcity: the shrinking public investment in education, the insistence that more educational … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, asceticism, donuts, Epicurus, idealism, neurosis, new collectivisms, overcaffeination, productivism, Utopia/dystopia, veganism
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Mood Economy
Here’s a roundtable talk I gave at the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory’s conference at the University of Illinois to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence … Continue reading
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