>I can relate to this, being one of those new Ph.Ds. You feel exactly like
>a character in a 3D shooter, like Max Payne discovering the neighbor of
>the number of the (capitalist) beast. But then you pick up the book, which
>is as Brecht said a weapon, and you learn to fight back. If the total
>system isn't going to give us jobs... then the system is going to feel the
>Payne-to-the-max.
Well, good luck to ya. I went to law school, me. It didn't trouble the system one whit. jks
>
>Academic capitalism has done a really nasty job on the university
>publishers -- nowadays, you're required to do all your own proofreading,
>editing, typesetting, indexing *before you sign a contract*. Talk about
>self-exploitation -- and then they turn around and send you some godawful
>screed completely trashing your text by someone who obviously didn't read
>the thing.
I used to do really careful, long, thorough reviews, a dizen single spaced typed pages.
jks
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