Two encounters with academia, decades apart, reveal the peculiar machinery through which institutions reproduce authority, exclusion and their own necessity. A personal account of education, alienation and the questionable meaning of progress.
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Symbolic Traffic
Language is a game in which winning, or apparent success, is characterised, celebrated, and sustained by the relational value of tokens within it. What actually wins is the communication system itself. Human projects, without exception, are functions of belief within language, of language. Success is the generation of more language. Wealth, politics, and sociocultural dominance […]
