{"id":153,"date":"2017-11-20T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/?p=153"},"modified":"2017-11-20T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:36:04","slug":"fast-train-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/2017\/11\/20\/fast-train-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"fast train approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We will define for you<br \/>\nthe boundaries and focus of your labor<br \/>\nthe purpose and means of research<br \/>\nwhat counts as knowledge<br \/>\nwhose knowledge counts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Our lawyers will help you understand<br \/>\nthat whatever carries our brand<br \/>\nis our property, including your communication, your data<br \/>\nyour image, its crafting, your free time,<br \/>\nyour dreams and the thoughts you have not had yet<\/p>\n<p>We kindly remind you that<br \/>\nyou are our poster child, not a public intellectual<br \/>\nyou are only useful as long as you can produce<br \/>\nthe deliverables that guarantee<br \/>\nour overheads and our prestige<\/p>\n<p>So, smile, nod your head<br \/>\nmeasure your words, don&#8217;t rock the boat<br \/>\nthere is much at stake<br \/>\nbills to pay, your children&#8217;s education,<br \/>\ntenure and careers of people you care about<\/p>\n<p>Get over yourself and get used to<br \/>\nsurveillance, proletarization<br \/>\nprecaritization, flexibilization,<br \/>\nmicro-managment, litigation and alienation<br \/>\nfrom labour, from authorship, from ownership, from self<\/p>\n<p>You will find wisdom in the fact that<br \/>\nacademic autonomy is over-rated<br \/>\ntenure is a redundant luxury<br \/>\ninsolence is professional suicide<br \/>\nhaving a job is a blessing<\/p>\n<p>do you know how many people<br \/>\nwould give everything to be in your place?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All artistic expressions published on this blog were created by Vanessa Andreotti and are licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will define for you the boundaries and focus of your labor the purpose and means of research what counts as knowledge whose knowledge counts Our lawyers will help you understand that whatever carries our brand is our property, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/2017\/11\/20\/fast-train-approaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3030637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreotti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}