"Audited data feeds into performance funding"
The above is a quote from an email I recently received from my
university. What this means is have I been published and how many times
in academic journals over the past year. Poetry and fiction writing does
not count in this data, only fully refereed proper academic journal
publication counts. So it appears that the quality of research and
thought is to be reckoned only by the number of times published in the
past year. What a load of demented bollocks do government bureaucrats
live by worshipping the sacred number. Do you have the numbers, my new
human god? This is the ignorance of the question posed today in this era
of the death throes of a far too late capitalist governmental
bureaucracy. Numbers already passed on.
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