Academia and the Luster of Capital

Title: Academia and the Luster of Capital
Author: Sande Cohen
ISBN: 9780816622313
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 216
Publisher Description: <b></b><p></p><p> Ideas, says Sande Cohen, have attained "commodity" status in the academy, and knowledge is now seen as another capitalistic "industry." In <i>Academia and the Luster of Capital, </i> Cohen both reveals and interrogates the specific and material workings of this economy of the marketplace of ideas.<p></p><p></p>Cohen uses paradigms from Baudrillard, Lytoard, Deleuze, and Guattari to assemble a "war machine" against the well-oiled apparatus of self-preservation and self-reproduction of the academic institution. In detailed and concrete arguments, he challenges accepted theories of criticism, especially university-based myths. <i>Academia and the Luster of Capital</i> constitutes a compelling statement for the abandonment of legitimating, officiating paradigms of thought in all academic disciplines, and outlines possibilities for the emergence of the new in thought in action.<p></p><p></p></p>