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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The corporate menagerie
Contributor:
Hutnyk, John
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2020
Published in:
Thesis Eleven, 160 (2020) 1, Seite 121-128
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/0725513620949009
ISSN:
0725-5136;
1461-7455
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This paper offers a typology of university management roles in the age of permanent austerity. The repackaging of every function within the university administration as a cost centre – meaning of course a potential profit centre – has long been seen as an unsustainable market model. Yet perversely it persists, and we would do well to name the hyperbolic functionaries of this administered institutional reconstruction, in a place where a humourless credentialism prevails. The paper revives the work, and temperament, of the early 20th-century sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen as a heuristic aid. With Veblen, the protocols of commercial imperative in the state education sector masquerade as education as a social good while the ‘university’ itself is skewered with the tragic realism of forms.