Keywords; For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, Especially as it Concerns Disciplines, Inter-Disciplinary Endeavor, and Modes of Resistance to the Same

Written by a group of Princeton graduate students and faculty, Keywords (Princeton University Press) is a cheeky critical lexicon of academia. The authors define 58 terms common to academic life, scrutinizing the structures of academia, calling out “knowledge production” as the enemy of thought, and even criticizing the notion of academic excellence.

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