“All of this made it hard not to feel that the best case is just the moral injury of having a bullshit job, as the alternative interpretation is being complicit or even aiding a system that one considers likely to be harmful. In particular, when being embedded in and confronted with an academic environment that is full of belief in techno-utopian ‘solutions’”
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 23:49:17 JST Aral Balkan “The impact of years of austerity are obviously not limited to academia…the resulting neoliberal hellscape can be felt everywhere and anywhere: Social services, healthcare, cost of living, crumbling infrastructure, all the fall-out of Brexit, etc… And now the new (allegedly “left”) government continues to double down on the existing policies, including letting millions freeze in the upcoming winter and copying the immigration policies of the fascists in Italy.”
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