Business ontology colonizes education through imported practices, language, and self-surveillance.
Evidence
One of its central features in this area is “business ontology”, as I have called it, which is simply the idea that the only things that actually count, the only criteria that matter, are related to business. Within education we have seen a creeping spread of practices, language and rhetoric from business. And this has spread into teaching, into the kind of self-policing and self-surveillance teachers are now required to perform. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1655
Categorization
- DEFINE: Fisher’s own coined term ‘business ontology’ is defined clearly here.
- XREF: connects to: Web 2.0 technologies teach self-regulation along business ideals like public schooling did — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 34; Best practices diffuse across governance and business as a shared lingua franca. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 252; Flat-ontology theory mimes and rationalizes the precaritization of academic labor — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 299 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Web 2.0 technologies teach self-regulation along business ideals like public schooling did
#exemplifies(0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 34 - Business ontology’s defeat of bohemia produced the Great Acceptance culture
#expands(0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2462 - Best practices diffuse across governance and business as a shared lingua franca.
#corroborates(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 252 - Flat-ontology theory mimes and rationalizes the precaritization of academic labor
#exemplifies(0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 299 - Unaccountable abstract social knowledge functionally serves data-colonialist capitalism.
#corroborates(0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 453