Hall – Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! : The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Introduction H. begins by acknowledging the neoliberal turn in the life of the university in the last twenty years (rising tuition rates, closure of non-economically viable departments, contingent labor, students as consumers, etc.) before turning to a central tension for the university: we don’t want the... Read More
Bousquet – The Rhetoric of ‘Job Market’ and the Reality of the Academic Labor System
Bousquet, Marc. “The Rhetoric of ‘Job Market’ and the Reality of the Academic Labor System.” College English 66.2 (November 2003): 207‐228. One goal of this piece is to address how the Bowen and Sosa 1989 job market report Prospects for Faculty was so incredibly erroneous in its sunny projection of future faculty jobs throughout the 1990s. B. claims that the report failed because it imposed “market ideology on data... Read More
Welch – “Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Post-Publicity Era”
Welch – “Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Post-Publicity Era” CCCC Feb. 2005, pp.470-492 In this essay Welch argues that writing from a working class perspective (or an adoption of working class struggles against neoliberal privatization) can allow students to engage public writing in a way that rejects the ills of capitalism. She does this by rejecting postmodern, postindustrial society in order to return to “capitalism’s long... Read More
CCR711 – Fine – Examining the Ideas of Globalization and Development
Fine, Ben. “Examining the Ideas of Globalisation and Development Critically: What Role for Political Economy?” New Political Economy 9 2 (2004): 213-31. Print. Fine’s essay sets out to answer a question recently presented by social theorist and geographer David Harvey: “Globalization is now one of the most hegemonic concepts for understanding the political economy of international capitalism. And its uses extend far beyond the business... Read More
CCR 691 – Welch Ch. 2 for Comment
Chapter Two: Ain’t Nobody’s Business? Main Claim / Executive Summary Welch engages a lot of issues in Chapter Two; however, her main concern seems to be the distinctions (and misrepresentations) of “public” and “private.” Welch argues that because “private” matters aren’t to be discussed, the trend toward “privatization” in the public sphere is a strategic attempt to remove numerous issues from debate in a would-be democracy. ... Read More
