jeff morrison's Profile

There is an astounding level of hypocrisy in academia.  Critiques of power abound, while individual academics make containers of themselves, waiting for the manna of power, in the form of tenure, publication and prestige, to fall into open, waiting hands.  The abjection of power's failure to act equally abounds.  Aspiring academics, graduate students, and undergraduates are often caught in various wheels of 'knowledge production,' getting in line to have various potentials assessed, passively collecting what passes for knowledge that literally trickles down the trunks of hoary academia, because that is what they are being trained to do.  These 'lesser' receptacles' potentials, once assessed, using 'objective' criteria, are then treated and calibrated for 'success,' according to a banking model of education that treats individuals as more or less worthy based on calculated 'returns on investment' expected to accrue in the future.  Absent from such constructions in academia (in spite of the inclusion of all kinds of analyses of power in various curricula) are robust ontological critiques with the potential to reveal rotting foundations in the various esteemed houses of knowledge of higher education in Canada and the U.S.