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1ctor of record,\u201d I have made the syllabus distinctly my own because that tiny gasp of freedom is to tenure what adjunct pay is to an actual salary. What have I put on it? Nothing of use. It is self-defeating, for that is what a philosophy of adjuncting must be."),(0,o.kt)("ol",{parentName:"blockquote"},(0,o.kt)("li",{parentName:"ol"},"THE STRUCTURAL PROBLEM")),(0,o.kt)("p",{parentName:"blockquote"},"Week 1: Marx on alienation"),(0,o.kt)("p",{parentName:"blockquote"},"My adjunct friend says, \u201cThe irony of adjuncting is being alienated labor while teaching future alienated laborers about Alienated Labor.\u201d Read the Alienated Labor section of Marx\u2019s \u201cEconomic-Philosophic Manuscripts.\u201d Alienation happens in a bunch of ways; for example, when instead of doing something great on your own terms, an arbitrarily powerful person forces you to do it his way. He ruins what you do by breaking it down into a series of distinct tasks, automating whatever can be automated, measuring how long each remaining task takes, and then paying you as little as possible per task. That\u2019s how administrators created adjuncting. It\u2019s almost like they\u2019ve read Marx."),(0,o.kt)("p",{parentName:"blockquote"},"Week 2: Adorno saw it coming"),(0,o.kt)("p",{parentName:"blockquote"},"We discuss the \u201cculture industry.\u201d Universities as a whole have what Adorno called a \u201cculture monopoly.\u201d As such, he says, \u201cThey cannot afford to neglect their appeasement of the real holders of power if their sphere of activity in mass society \u2026 is not to undergo a series of purges.\u201d Well, guess what? The purges happened anyway. This is why we commute.")),(0,o.kt)("p",null,(0,o.kt)("a",{parentName:"p",href:"https://adjunctcommuterweekly.com/2015/10/23/syllabus-the-philosophy-of-adjuncting-by-kevin-temple/"},"Continued at ",(0,o.kt)("em",{parentName:"a"},"Adjunct Commuter Weekly\u2026"))))}h.isMDXComponent=!0}}]);