ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the growing marriage between corporations and schools and universities. The author demonstrates that as neoliberal economic logic continues to unfold, colleges and universities are actively repositioning themselves within this new terrain and reformulating their dispositions in relation to other non- and for-profit organizations. As a result, the author explains, faculty have experienced hyperprofessionalization and have been cut off from the broader public. The author turns to the work of Sartre and Said to help respond to the pressures of academic capitalism. Both of these scholars critiqued the narrowing of specialties and subspecialties within the academy. Sartre emphasized intellectual work foregrounded in existential choice, human freedom, and the imaginary. Said believed the role of the intellectual is to expand language and discourse in ways that challenge reductive categories and stereotypes. The author concludes that these two intellectuals might help us rethink our roles as curriculum scholars.
