FUCK THEORY
Experiments in visceral philosophy.
Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss
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“Mr. Polk’s $1.8 million compensation amounted to 3.5 percent of the budget at Mountain State University, which has had accreditation problems and a low 2.5 percent graduation rate for first-time, full-time students, according to The Chronicle’s report…Kevin J. Manning at Stevenson University in Maryland earned $1,491,655 — 16.1 times as much as the pay and benefits of the average full professor there.”
Meanwhile, universities continue to depend for their survival on armies of graduate students employed at less than minimum wage, churned out with useless Ph.D.s, employed and created solely to provide cheap labor for the academic machine, devoting years of their lives to earning a piece of paper that comes with no job security and no guarantee of a job to begin with. And across campus, the 25-year-old assistant football coach is earning more than a tenured professor in the English department.
Occupy the humanities. Occupy the universities. Occupy yourselves with the vain effort to come up with any justification for this system that doesn’t boil down to pure greed and vanity. “We want your homes. We want your lives. We want the things you won’t allow us. We won’t use guns. We won’t use bombs. We’ll use the one thing we’ve got more of - that’s our minds.”
