LIBA 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Imperialism, Governmentality, Toby Miller

• School: McGill University
• Department: Liberal Arts
• Course: LIBA 202
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

-cv online less detailed than his account in book of his professional background. -commodification of knowledge; alters his cv to suit his needs. -2 humanities in the usa: humanities one: history philosophy literature, humanities two: communications media studies. -decline of interest and enrollment in humanities: recession = need to get a job, jobless market for humanities. -decline in funding for humanities: sciences more in funding; discrepancy of funding b/c sciences need more funding for materials, la(cid:271)s, hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)ities do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed as (cid:373)u(cid:272)h te(cid:272)h fu(cid:374)di(cid:374)g. -anti-usa theme (throughout the book): citizenship test derogatory attitude. -two tendencies that have shaped history of us unis: expansion of governmentality, research undertaken for public weal: money going into education rather than healthcare, etc. No opinion given in this section; not clear if things are good/bad things. -miller does an accurate job of representing current realities. -power shift; non for profit and for profit publishing houses.