02508nam 2200589 a 450 991045763070332120200520144314.00-8166-8496-0(CKB)1000000000347195(EBL)310243(OCoLC)476093246(SSID)ssj0000096311(PQKBManifestationID)11119543(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096311(PQKBWorkID)10081564(PQKB)11699272(MiAaPQ)EBC310243(OCoLC)567983111(MdBmJHUP)muse38751(Au-PeEL)EBL310243(CaPaEBR)ebr10159507(CaONFJC)MIL522401(EXLCZ)99100000000034719519920929d1993 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAcademia and the luster of capital[electronic resource] /Sande CohenMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19931 online resource (210 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2231-0 0-8166-2230-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and index.1. What is criticism for? -- 2. The academic thing -- 3. Habermas's bureaucratization of the final solution -- 4. The disappearance of history -- 5. Criticism and art events : reading with Lyotard and Baudrillard.Ideas, says Sande Cohen, have attained "commodity" status in the academy, and knowledge is now seen as another capitalistic "industry." In Academia and the Luster of Capital, Cohen both reveals and interrogates the specific and material workings of this economy of the marketplace of ideas.Cohen uses paradigms from Baudrillard, Lytoard, Deleuze, and Guattari to assemble a "war machine" against the well-oiled apparatus of self-preservation and self-reproduction of the academic institution. In detailed and concrete arguments, he challenges accepted theories of criticism, especially university-basedCriticism (Philosophy)Critical theoryElectronic books.Criticism (Philosophy)Critical theory.001Cohen Sande885208MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457630703321Academia and the luster of capital1976499UNINA