However much we like to think that thinking belongs to the order of the gift, that it is a vocation, and I am not saying that it is not, it also is rigorously inscribed within the increasingly corporate economy of “academe,” with the result that its freedom and hermeneutic universality are something less than it likes to think. Its unfettered freedom is also fettered to earning a living, something to which the throng of young jobless PhDs we have produced can testify better than can I.
The brutal truth of the corporate economy of "acadeME" is tethered to the undenial fact that ME still have to eat like every other non-academic ME.
