Projektifieringen

Litteraturvetenskapen som vara

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  • Anders Johansson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v44i3-4.9364

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projectification, subjectivation, reification, pseudo-activity, New Public Management

Abstract

Projectification. Literary Studies as Commodity

The article contains a critique of the project form which the humanities at large have embraced during the past few decades. The ”project” is not only a word we attach to our research efforts; it is a concept that has far-reaching consequences regarding how we read, think, write and act as scholars. The projectification of the humanities is not an isolated phenomenon, but part of a larger development. This article addresses a number of the consequences of this tendency in the context of literary scholarship, suggesting that: 1) the draft becomes more important than the realization; 2) the research tends to be standardized; 3) the academic activity is segmented; 3) economical means are regarded as ends in themselves; 4) a new type of research subject arises through the interpellation of the research foundations; 5) stress and sickliness becomes frequent among researchers and PhD-students, since projectification gives rise to a ”bragging culture”. Finally the article argues that projectification is one component of a more extensive development, in which activity has become an end in itself. Following Louis Althusser, Georg Lukács and Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello this article argues that these developments originate in the logic of capitalism or in the dialectic of enlightenment. It is thus difficult to find a simple solution to the problem. However, the article ends with an argument for more modesty in terms of research, and simultaneously discerns a utopian element in the research plans that are never carried out.

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Anders Johansson

Anders Johansson är docent i litteraturvetenskap, verksam vid Umeå universitet. Hans senaste bok, Critica obscura. Litteraturkritiska essäer, utkom 2012.

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2014-01-01

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Johansson, A. (2014). Projektifieringen: Litteraturvetenskapen som vara. Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 44(3-4), 53–61. https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v44i3-4.9364

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