02475nam 2200577 a 450 991078438260332120230421043935.00-8166-8496-0(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 theoryCriticism (Philosophy)Critical theory.001Cohen Sande1576803MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784382603321Academia and the luster of capital3854863UNINA