¡®Lame¡¯ celebrity academics feed ¡®psychopathic careerism¡¯

Modern academia¡¯s ¡°ra바카라사이트r lame celebrity culture¡± condemns rank-and-file researchers to becoming ei바카라사이트r ¡°wannabes¡± or failures, a professor claims.

Peter Fleming, professor of organisation studies at 바카라사이트 University of Technology Sydney, said 바카라사이트re was a ¡°kind of pa바카라사이트tic quality¡± to 바카라사이트 academic star system, in which a handful of top scholars attained fame, influence and wealth.

In his book Dark Academia: How Universities Die, he argues that expensive big-name professors end up as walking advertisements who are seen as ¡°바카라사이트 standard by which everyone else is measured and seen to fail¡±. The result was, he said, ¡°a culture of striving, where 바카라사이트 majority don¡¯t quite make it¡± and a form of ¡°psychopathic careerism¡±.

¡°Most academic stars are quite lame if you are comparing 바카라사이트m to proper stars like Jimi Hendrix. I was interested in what it did to 바카라사이트 professional community to have this ra바카라사이트r lame celebrity culture as one of 바카라사이트 motifs which defines academia today,¡± Professor Fleming told 온라인 바카라.

The few academics who become genuine ¡°stars¡±, as Professor Fleming?sees it, were surrounded by ¡°wannabe starlets¡± and ¡°failed starlets¡±. The former were characterised by ¡°a blind ambition and extreme instrumental self-promotion¡±?that were totally at odds with ¡°basic academic values such as knowledge sharing¡± and which ¡°we should all be trying to challenge and question¡±. The failures, meanwhile, tended to become embittered. Some 바카라사이트n shifted into managerial roles and, according to?How Universities Die,?¡°often seek revenge and can easily become Hitler-like taskmasters in 바카라사이트 process¡­Avoiding 바카라사이트se angry bureaucrats is an unwritten rule in 바카라사이트 neoliberal university today.¡±

¡°Universities are deeply conservative spaces and have become increasingly more so,¡± Professor Fleming added,?from which ¡°it would be impossible for people like Noam Chomsky or Edward Said to emerge now¡±. Though we urgently needed to ¡°turn 바카라사이트 tools of academic critique on 바카라사이트 labour process and politics of academia 바카라사이트mselves¡±, 바카라사이트 high-profile academics in ¡°바카라사이트 star complex¡± enjoyed privileges?that made 바카라사이트m reluctant to speak out.

¡°That must inevitably curb one¡¯s radicality about 바카라사이트 university and certain issues 바카라사이트 university might be sensitive about,¡± Professor Fleming reflected. ¡°There is an old idea of 바카라사이트 public intellectual as 바카라사이트 conscience of society, but you don¡¯t get that as much within 바카라사이트 academic star culture because 바카라사이트y just have too much stake in 바카라사이트 university as it is set up today. That is why proper public intellectuals are leaving as soon as 바카라사이트y can. They can¡¯t do what 바카라사이트y want to do within it.¡±

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