{"id":14976,"date":"2014-11-15T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-writing-in-the-same-year-that\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:29:30","slug":"shrinkrants-writing-in-the-same-year-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-writing-in-the-same-year-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14976 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-writing-in-the-same-year-that\/attachment\/14977\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nevrhrp07p1rbuuryo1_250-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shrinkrants.tumblr.com\/post\/102657539005\/writing-in-the-same-year-that-thatcher-was\">shrinkrants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Writing in the same year that Thatcher was elected, Foucault described a nascent neoliberalism that we now experience in its mature state. For those of us born in a post-Reagan America, having operated within this system our whole lives, there can be no doubt that Foucault\u2019s thinking describes our present. As graduate students, we\u2019ve taken the risk of investing our human capital in an academic career. But if the ivory tower has always been derided for insulating itself from the so-called \u201creal world,\u201d that insulation seems to offer little protection from the realities of neoliberalism. The things that would seem most incommensurate with economic rationality \u2014 the rigor of our ideas and the quality of our teaching \u2014 are judged increasingly by economic standards.<\/p>\n<p>The contours of the neoliberal university are by now as familiar to <em>Chronicle of Higher Education <\/em>subscribers as they are to readers of the <em>New York Times<\/em>. Humanities departments shrink while \u201ccareer services\u201d grow. Corporate funding for research blurs the lines between scholarly inquiry and product development. It also encourages scholars to end papers with some version of \u201cmore research is needed.\u201d Tenured professors are replaced by adjuncts and graduate students. Faculty are evaluated and promoted according to a model of \u201cdiscipline and publish.\u201d Humanities majors are consoled that their writing skills will help them find a job that pays off their debt. Critique is marketed as critical thinking skills, while the humanities justify themselves as neoliberal arts. Foucault was one of the first and one of the best to explain the system of rationality and power in which we live. The question of \u201cFoucault: After 1984\u201d \u2014 and the question for those of us still engaged with his work \u2014 is whether he can help us get out of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/foucaults-risks\/#\">Foucault\u2019s Risks<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/contributor\/anna-shechtman\">Anna Shechtman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/contributor\/peter-raccuglia\">Peter Raccuglia<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/contributor\/susan-morrow\">Susan Morrow,\u00a0 <\/a><em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amydigennaro.com\/\">Amy DiGennaro<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shrinkrants: Writing in the same year that Thatcher was elected, Foucault described a nascent neoliberalism that we now experience in its mature state. For those of us born in a post-Reagan America, having operated within this system our whole lives, there can be no doubt that Foucault\u2019s thinking describes our present. 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