Tag: Ponzi Austerity

Ponzi Austerity & The Monolingual University (Criticism LTD, Episode #4)

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Last week, West Virginia University announced that it would abolish its World Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics Department, proposing to replace it with automated digital instruction. This is the apotheosis of trends going back decades. In this episode we talk about the effects of monolingual education.

Ponzi Austerity In The Age of Cultural Abundance (Criticism LTD, Episode #3)

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How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if demand for cultural education is supposedly declining?