View this link:

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/preoccupied-reading.pdf

An article—perhaps even a manifesto—titled “Preoccupied” just came out regarding the New School occupation, which occurred last month. Here’s a quote that I got from Jodi Dean that I think gives voice to some of my own apprehensions about academia:

To defuse spontaneity, have a meeting. Then another, and another. Wait ten minutes, and then start over. This is the logic of the radical liberals. Ashamed of the failures of the 60’s, they seek to relive its worst moments and rectify them in the present, as if that would bring honor to the cemeteries which house their dead. Every site of conflict is deemed counterproductive, and every moment of possibility is deemed too soon. Believing that they are the true heirs to the “lessons” of the past, they smother the present with their dead language, providing false directions that lead only to entrenched stability…

Avoid them at all costs.

Via I Cite.