Academia demonstrates how loathed systems still secure compliance

Evidence

This double situation — in which something is loathed but at the same time complied with — is typical of capitalist realism, and is particularly poignant in the case of academia, one of the supposed strongholds of the left. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1719

Categorization

• XREF: This opening frames the entire closing argument — the definition of capitalist realism as loathing-plus-compliance. — connects to: Academic researchers legitimate surveillance capitalism by providing its theoretical support. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1331; Google institutionalized secrecy to sustain behavioral surplus extraction — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 279; Disobedience to authority is cognitively costlier than compliance — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 476 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Academic researchers legitimate surveillance capitalism by providing its theoretical support. #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1331
• Google institutionalized secrecy to sustain behavioral surplus extraction #exemplifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 279
• Tenure-track conformity to power precedes and explains academic quietism #qualifies (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 325
• Disobedience to authority is cognitively costlier than compliance #corroborates (0.72) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 476