Scholars@Hallwalls: Chad Lavin, “The Politics of Value (and the Value of Politics)”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesThis paper uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to index the declining authority of the humanities to the rise in economic logic of neoliberalism. Looking at the institutions and practices that elevate the discourse of economics over alternative modes of assigning value (namely, ethics and politics), Lavin argues that the esteem of the social sciences—and […]