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Friday, October 14, 2005

Timothy Burke
on Obsolescence

What one is complaining about, however, in attacking the way tenure works within ... specific institutional cultures and across academia as a whole is not something like cronyism. It’s about administrative structures like departments, about the premium that the organization of academic places on inward-turning specialization, about modes of achievement that often rest on bygone publishing regimes and practices of readership which have no more than a decade’s worth of life left to them.
Posted at: 10/14/2005 10:01:00 AM