this abattoir is a college

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>The modern university is a factory that transforms knowledge workers into carcasses. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>We </em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>are cattle primed for the slaughter. Part poem and part poet's novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>this abattoir is a college </em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>explores the hostile demands that higher education places upon capitalised bodies upon students and faculty whose common purposes are now brittle and pointless. If these institutions will never love </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>you </em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>back Tierney asks: can the knowledge worker foster a different collegial monster? Burn down the classroom the poem replies </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>we </em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>can build an unreasonable college. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>Like a flower dropped on a bomb Orchid uses her faculties to cut a window in the brick. After carefully reading this book here is your assignment: practice saying no. Let this no be sung in operatic tones wear it like the lastest festive seasonal fashion or dance it like the grooviest moves on TikTok. Nooooo. Institute it.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>-Jennifer Firestone author of Story</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>If you liked this movie you might also like Julian Spahr's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>The Tranformation </em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>Jed Rasula's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry</em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)> Caroline Bergvall's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>Drift</em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)> Lytle Shaw's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>Fieldworks</em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)> Karl Marx's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte</em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)> and Samuel R. Delaney's</span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)> Dhalgren.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)></span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>-Charles Bernstein author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(213 213 213 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies</em></p>