Pill Pod 92 - Academic Gatekeeping (Exclusive)
Added 2022-09-02 04:49:41 +0000 UTCThoughts and prayers going out to the Dugin family, then we talk about the gates made to keep people out of academia: including money, jargon, conferences and JSTOR.
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Hello, Bear from the past! I had the same thought. Either their numbers apply to very specific people or they're missing out on cost of living. Everything in Berkeley's expensive as hell
Alyn
2023-04-06 00:47:10 +0000 UTCYou forgot people on your dissertation committee dying because they didn't retire at a reasonable age.
Walker Goff
2022-11-18 15:33:59 +0000 UTCJust wanted to flag that while debt is typically a tool to keep the poor "in their place", wealthy people also leverage it as seed capital for exploitative ventures; i.e. taking out a loan with a 4% interest rate for a venture that will yield 10% returns.
Derek Edward Martin
2022-11-01 20:17:28 +0000 UTCIm going to UC Berkeley as an in state tuition and the first year was 45k,, second year Im paying 15k tuition and 10k in housing,, cost of living is craaazyyy ,, Ill imagine I will amass as much debt as you all were talking about. Very annoying
Xochitl Hood
2022-09-13 22:33:49 +0000 UTChttps://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-requires-immediate-public-access-all-u-s--funded-research-papers-2025 Announced just last month, publicly funded research papers in the US will no longer be pay walled starting in 2025.
George Ambra
2022-09-09 04:37:21 +0000 UTCDugin's daughter believed in the exact same things her dad does, so I'm not shedding any tears over her. Regarding fascism, I have to strongly disagree. Fascism isn't something that remains static over time, that fascism is only what early 20th century Italy, Germany or France had and now it's over because neoliberalism. And this isn't just because of all the far right terrorism we've seen over recent years or the rhetoric against minorities/repealing of rights/lionising of strongman politicians of late. Even in academia, you can look at Roger Griffin's definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism, and you can really see how America particularly fits that bill, especially as regards the latter word there. But during the Trump years, you could see how even the former term was something Trump ran on and literally was embodied in the MAGA slogan. And in Europe you can definitely see more subtle echoes of this attitude not only waiting in the wings, but in the rhetoric and speeches of neoliberal politicians as well who use them when their focus groups tell them that a significant chunk of the voting bloc responds to them. Another aspect of fascism is capitalism itself, which uses fascism as a last ditch attempt to protect itself from revolution and general social unrest, which tends to happen in times of economic downturn. Also, Nazi Germany was very cozy with the likes of Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, IBM, Coca Cola et al., so it's not like it's impossible for the neoliberal order to begin taking on fascist characteristics, and eventually evolve into a full-blown fascism unique to postmodern conditions. Otherwise, I do wholeheartedly agree that the term is so overused in discourse that it's become nearly meaningless. Recently I saw a meme that described the Oedipus complex as fascist, and this is what happens when you let rabid online Deleuzeans make memes.
anacidcommie
2022-09-08 19:42:14 +0000 UTCThere's a worrying little article on e-flux that comments on this, from someone who attended a few things dugin did in the 90s, although the translation is a bit shaky https://www.e-flux.com/notes/487550/dugin-s-black-mass
Gonzalo Pacheco Covili
2022-09-05 12:50:39 +0000 UTCno yelling at you. Nothing got wrong. I loved it! The idea you are flirting w/ -about -content- being the new horizon for meaningful discourse, a possible evolution/contender for a New Academia by The People, is crazy compelling, Along w/the mix of interests that could benefit from a public & competitive thrashing; is very interesting to me. (the debate-bro question is paramount, prescient, and dynamic) More a vicarious thrill, than any frustration- to sit and enjoy and want to participate. I possess no better key to code by. My bro Sam Peer is a Phd, professor clinical psych and child dev out at Idaho State, and the insight to academic panels and such will be helpful in keeping up w him and his plight. Thanks for taking the time to clarify. I trust you. just trying to gauge. Enjoy your night, my friend! Thanks for your time and attention
The One True Tim
2022-09-04 02:48:00 +0000 UTCLol
Plastic Pills
2022-09-03 18:14:04 +0000 UTCYour question about Fascism having any meaningful currency is a ; "get out of my head" thought. I have a difference of opinion on your directed sympathies for Dugin's loss. But; otherwise= man, I wanna jump in this convo so bad!!!! You need a fiery Yankee up in this mix.
The One True Tim
2022-09-03 18:11:38 +0000 UTCDugin wrote a bit about the sacrifice of one's own children - https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1561334515490082817 Original: http://arcto.ru/article/1655
Tyler Neely
2022-09-02 18:59:57 +0000 UTCThe academic world outside of Europe is way too constrained by the market. And saddly France is slowly joining the global trend of privatization. Prohibitive costs of education don't simply bar students from attending univeristies, it also drives them away from humanities because of a simple cost/benefit analysis. Another problem it causes is that humanities end up with only students from wealthy backgrounds which favorises groundless thinking that ignore material factors. To add to this when I majored in philosophy I felt like it had really been neutralized by the institution, Platon, Descartes, Kant were most of the content and it had to be mastered if you wanted to get the agrégation which is the only way to get a job at univ in a philosophy dept here. While we were from (mostly) diverse backgrounds since univ is (mostly) free in France, all our teachers were from highly normated elite schools that prepare you for specific exams and nothing else. The whole publishing industry thing is bs and should obv be nationalized, also note that the incentive that researchers have to be constantly publishing could be linked to what has been brought earlier in the podcast "don't censor just put things out so ppl can't process". We know it happens with hard sciences, good studies are overwhelmed with bad studies done quickly, that either prove nothing cause the protocole sucks or prove things that have been proven thousand of times. What I mean by all of this is that capital don't just prevent ppl from accessing academia, it also structurally make it shittier. I feel like something Pill wanted to point out was the symbolic violence of the institution (Pierre Bourdieu), name dropping, professor's different reputations, rigid norms and rituals of academia really scare ppl into thinking "that's not for me" before even trying. This might partly explain why Žižek's jokes and trivial expression/behaviors are so appreciated. They desacralize what otherwise scares and hurt ppl in their ego. What 68 brought in the academic world was that the students could finaly have a say in the lecture, that the teacher were not immovable figures of authority. Can't wait for the Spinoza episode, maybe one day Lordon will be covered too ? I will shill him shamelessly until then.
Kelen
2022-09-02 14:35:28 +0000 UTC
