Academic humanists function as disc jockeys of capital, not record keepers

Evidence

It is in terms of this intricate interanimating relationship between margin and center that we cannot be called mere keepers of records. 1 would welcome a metaphor offered by a member of the audience at the symposium: We are, rather, the disc jockeys of an advanced capitalist ethnocracy. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 319

Categorization

• XREF: The image of intellectuals as ‘disc jockeys’ who merely curate/select among pre-recorded content parallels the strategic-essentialist’s position of selecting among available identity-positions without authoring them. — connects to: Capitalist production creates and funds even its own academic critics — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 314

Broader Connections

• Capitalist production creates and funds even its own academic critics #corroborates (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 314