![]() ![]() The present investigation is also autobiographical in a more specific sense. In short, we academics live out the contradictions of neoliberalism every day. The academic workforce faces increasing precarity and shrinking wages even as it is called on to teach and assess more students than ever before in human history-and to demonstrate that we are doing so better than ever, via newly devised regimes of outcome-based assessment. We must therefore “do more with less,” cutting costs while meeting ever-greater demands. Yet at the same time, colleges and universities have suffered the fate of all public goods under the neoliberal order. Our institutions are foundational to neoliberalism’s claim to be a meritocracy, insofar as we are tasked with discerning and certifying the merit that leads to the most powerful and desirable jobs. We academics occupy a crucial node in the neoliberal system. Every academic critique of neoliberalism is an unacknowledged memoir. ![]()
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