Issue #170: Skirmish of Signifiers

At the end of an arduous semester, perhaps one of the most challenging in the entire history of education, I like to revisit Hortense Spillers’ harsh condemnation of the academy in “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date” (1994):

We risk banality in saying that today’s academy, by trivializing and degrading its critical function in the society…