Immediacy theory compounds academic deskilling caused by plutocratic destruction of education

Evidence

Immediacy reason issues from plutocratic destruction of public education and independent media, but it also bears the imprint of theory’s divestment from knowledge and individuation of epistemology. Circling viciously, immediacy style for theory actively suborns further deskilling of academic labor. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 251

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: When education declines, pseudo-scientific cults proliferate as paranoia — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 156; Inequality and degraded public universities are mutually reinforcing — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 366; Teacher deskilling under management pedagogies weakens education as a democratic force — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 196 (+1 more)