Erkan's field diary

This is the cafeteria. We have a wonderful campus with lots trees and all.

And this is where we work. All offices are designed like this, at least in our building. As you see three computers in an L-shaped desk. Instructors face the wall and TAs face each other. Looks like a call center, but even in call centers there are partitions in the desks. There are different approaches on this design miracle: From a Bourdieuan perspective, this is to punish the dominated sector of dominating classes, that is the academicians, by lefty architects. From a Taylorist perspective, this is the ultimate production facility in a scholarly context. As the service industry expanded, the focus shifted from production to consumption and Taylorist designers brought Fordism into the academy. Never mind the neoliberalism and flexible mode of productions, kids need to be inculcated through mass education and hence comes the homogenous inculcation facilities- at this juncture I merge Bourdieu and Taylorist production ideas (with an Foucauldian touch in mind).

These are all speculations, of course. Take it as you like...