The professionalisation of scholarship marked a decisive shift—from inquiry as a vocation to academia as an industry. Once the university became a business, its priorities recalibrated around continuity, funding, and image management. The scholar ceased to be a boundary explorer and became instead a reputational asset, a metric, a compliant node in a bureaucratic feedback […]
It’s Monday morning and I just can’t escape the feeling of being chained to a wheel of ever-accelerating meaninglessness. The reciprocal obligations, the games, the roles, the participatory self-surveillance of endlessly hyper-inflating complexity and confusion that invents its own purposes, meanings and necessity as it rumbles blindly along. I am unsure of what it all […]
Finding myself waist-deep in a complex University degree at the moment and it is hard to get past constantly feeling inadequate and stupid. Ticking the boxes and walking backwards juggling flaming chainsaws through the cheese grater of institutional expectations while also working to support myself, I am utterly uncomfortable and quite disconsolate about my ability […]
Daedelus Kite 