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| Autor/in | Bousquet, Marc |
|---|---|
| Titel | We Are All Roman Porn Stars Now |
| Quelle | In: Academe, 98 (2012) 6, S.23-27 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0190-2946 |
| Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Rewards; Films; Wages; Work Environment; Motivation; Teaching (Occupation); Teacher Attitudes; College Faculty |
| Abstract | American Association of University Professors (AAUP) members are likely to be familiar with the 1960 adaptation of Howard Fast's "Spartacus" by Stanley Kubrick and Dalton Trumbo, a rousing Kirk Douglas production widely credited with breaking the Hollywood blacklist. They are a bit less likely to be among the five or six million weekly viewers of the recent series of the same title produced by Sam Raimi, a show that will launch its fourth and final season on Starz in January 2013. With balletic violence, gorgeous computer-generated imagery, and lovingly detailed mature sequences, Raimi's production does not at first seem calculated for the status-conscious and service-motivated intellectual--the sort of person who gives up salary in exchange for prestige and satisfaction. That said, one of the show's persistent themes is the personal cost of pursuing psychic rewards--such as celebrity or the esteem of one's colleagues. The show invites identification with the gladiators on the supposition that the viewers are also imprisoned by their own pursuit of affective compensation. People's motivations (teaching for love, serving the community, bringing about the good society, and so on) are prime examples of psychic compensation. Their superdiscounted wages likewise exemplify the cost of accepting it. What interests the author about "Spartacus" and the grammar of adult film is the question of delivering work without a wage, for an extreme wage discount, or over and above the requirements of a wage. In this article, the author argues that working without a wage--or for a discounted wage, or for psychic compensation, or delivering additional work off the clock--generally involves some form of superexploitation. The cutting edge of management practice is finding ways to maximize the employee's donation above and beyond the wage. Of course, the coin of emotion, in fulfilling the desire to serve, is only part of the story. Where the personal need to serve ends--when it run depleted, pumped absolutely dry by the relentless engine of university accumulation "in the service of good"--a whole underworld of terror, humiliation, and abuse awaits the university worker who comes to his or her senses. When the appeals to pride, love, and self-sacrifice at last run their course, most of today's superexploited will simply be bullied into further giving with absurd metrics, unreasonable expectations, dishonest evaluation, the threat of nonrenewal, or the like. (ERIC). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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