Doctoral research promises original thought, but the institutional machinery that recognises and rewards knowledge systematically reproduces precisely that ignorance it exists to supersede.
Tag: institutional authority
Our existential crisis lies in this entanglement: the relations through which we could create different, better, futures keep being recruited into the continuation of the arrangements that restrict them.
How lawfare converts institutional status and financial power into pressure that silences criticism and makes public disagreement prohibitively expensive.
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epistemic pyramid scheme
This is how a system built to produce knowledge becomes a system for reproducing the conditions under which its existing knowledge remains authoritative.
