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A non-representational autoethnography of protoacademic desire in the 3rd-century Industrial Society
An installation by Alessandro Graciotti and Alessia Derudas
Wanna help build a collective норка [ˈnorkə]?
Do you have a song that accompanied, or is accompanying, you through the joys and deaths of your PhD/more or less precarious academic post? Share it with us, and we'll create a playlist of resistance. Music has always sent out lines of flights...
While you engage with The Concept, you can visit our installation, sit down, and spin the music on the CD player [press play]. That music is what we could not put into words during our PhDs. We are in this together, but we are not one and the same...
We will add your songs to a music playlist available at this link, in real time.
A норка is a burrow; a PhD student is prey in a burrow. Early Career Researchers continue burrow-ing entrances and exits through probation, tenure, and the promised land of precarity. Thus, prey becomes nomad; the war machine. You can read more about it by engaging with the concept.
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