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<h1 id="cultural-studies-as-an-alibi">Cultural Studies as an Alibi</h1>
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<li><time datetime="2014-12-14">14 December 2014</time></li>
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<p>I would rather talk about the problems of ethics, value, trust, hierarchy, and labor in academic life than use cultural studies as an alibi, one more time, for the urgency of responding to the institutional pressures of the present that have rendered so many of us bitter or angry or tired or cynical or perhaps simply confused about what to do in this moment of intellectual expansion and economical downsizing in the United States academy. (9)</p>
<p><cite>Berlant, Lauren. “Collegiality, Crisis, and Cultural Studies.” <em>ADE Bulletin</em> 117, Fall 1997, 4-9.</cite></p>
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