“NoDUH”on the Inside Higher Ed website wrote in response to this provocative article today: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/28/more-humanities-phds-are-awarded-job-openings-are-disappearing •“No duh. I got a doctorate in the humanities and graduated into the recession: 2010. One visiting postion and I was done. Nothing, nothng, nothing but adjuncting positions available. I ran out of time, money, health to keep pursuing tenure-track work, or even more visiting positions. The academy used the recssion excuse to double-down on "shedding" full-time faculty positions. That will NEVER stop. The shift to part-time labor among faculty is as permanent as outsourcing in the manufacturing sector. PERMANENT. And yet institutions keep churning out new phd's because they themselves are in the race: more head-counts among their doctoral students means more funding for their own dept's. They won't stop. They will never stop. All our professional associations still behave as if the profession has NOT distmantled itself, as if we all have those tenure-track positions. Demands for publishing and conferencing are at faster and faster levels. This spin cycle will only go faster until it burns itself out somehow, but I don't know what that will look like. It is the corporatized academy working according to the logics of late capitalism. It's a machine that grinds up people while exploiting their passion and commitment to their chosen professions. Don't look to academia to change things. It won't It will continue to eat up everything n sight until there's nothing left, like any other capitalist machine. The majority of the faculty at my institution at now low-[aid adjuncts making $2400-2900 per course of 25-40 students. The admins make 100-150k a year/ We are the peons in the knowledge factory. "Merika”