'I am an academic'

"Our relatively comfortable, middle class salaries and lifestyles, our next book project, our next PhD student, our new course handbook, our impact report, our next task within the university administration and tomorrow's lecture makes us almost indifferent to what is going on around the society. Without underestimating at all the dramatic intensification of our working conditions and the fact that most academics (especially junior ones) are forced to work far more than 8 hours per day, it is also fair to say that the majority of academics  arguably managed to lock ourselves into  academic bubbles and wear our 'I am an academic' hats. We often minded our own business, while crisis-capitalist governance was attacking gradually one after the other sectors of society in Britain or elsewhere"


"Universities in a State of Exception", by Dimitris Dalakoglou

http://www.theasa.org/he_crisis_dalakoglu.shtml