Saturday, November 20, 2004
Personal Oeckonomics
Natalie's post yesterday attempted to explain why it is, perhaps, that all of us are blogging like fiends right now, especially considering the increasing pressure of our end-of-semester deadlines, which in a couple of weeks will be curshing us with the approximate force required to turn our brains into diamonds.
The link she used to explain--which appear to be lecture notes from a sociology class--is spot-on. Let me highlight a key passage, ripped right from the lecture notes:
"These are some of what are often regarded as dehumanizing conditions of work under capitalism.
(i) workers must do detail work and are crippled monstrosities.
(ii) separation of mental and manual labour.
(iii) monotony of repeated tasks.
(iv) labour not creative but merely concerned with possession."
Now, dear reader, replace "Capitalism" with "Graduate Studentry" and you get the point.
But really, as this passage shows, maybe making a distinction between the two is misleading....
The link she used to explain--which appear to be lecture notes from a sociology class--is spot-on. Let me highlight a key passage, ripped right from the lecture notes:
"These are some of what are often regarded as dehumanizing conditions of work under capitalism.
(i) workers must do detail work and are crippled monstrosities.
(ii) separation of mental and manual labour.
(iii) monotony of repeated tasks.
(iv) labour not creative but merely concerned with possession."
Now, dear reader, replace "Capitalism" with "Graduate Studentry" and you get the point.
But really, as this passage shows, maybe making a distinction between the two is misleading....
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