Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame Blacker David
Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame Blacker David The current neoliberal mutation of capitalism has evolved beyond the days when the wholesale exploitation of labor underwrote the…
Specifikacia Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame Blacker David
Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame Blacker David
The current neoliberal mutation of capitalism has evolved beyond the days when the wholesale exploitation of labor underwrote the world system's expansion. The education system is caught in the throes of this eliminationism across a number of fronts: crushing student debt, impatience with student expression, the looting of vestigial public institutions and, finally, as coup de grace, an abandonment of the historic ideal of universal education. While "normal" business profits plummet and theft-by-finance rises, capitalism now shifts into a mode of elimination that targets most of us--along with our environment--as waste products awaiting managed disposal.
The very idea of education activism becomes a comforting fiction. "Education reform" is powerless against eliminationism and is at best a mirage that diverts oppositional energies. Educational institutions are strapped into the
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