Week 8: Publish or Perish (Also This Course)

Academia's own involution — citation counts, grade inflation, and a syllabus that gets more detailed every year without teaching more

26 April 2027

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Outline#

• publish-or-perish: the citation-count arms race as a KPI regime applied to scholarship
• grade inflation as the identical mechanism, slower
• the self-audit: this syllabus counted rather than felt — involution, or just teaching?
• the same count turned on the teaching team: one convenor lecturing and tutoring both, because his covering all three set the baseline the other two were measured against — the course’s 卷王
• the same audit, on your own workload