{"id":393,"date":"2026-06-17T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/?p=393"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:19:16","slug":"robyn-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/robyn-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What remains opaque is how study learns to imitate itself. Under neoliberal conditions, the radical vocabulary of creative inquiry \u2014 risk, experimentation, openness \u2014 is absorbed into metrics of institutional value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critique becomes something measurable, rewardable, optimised, and available for return. Like the hot dog, registered here through staff accrual points, it offers a recognisable form assembled from processed remnants: shaped, coloured, stabilised, and made saleable. It resembles the thing it claims to be, while replacing substance with simulacrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown\u2019s account of neoliberalism as the economisation of social and political life is useful here because it shows how education is recoded through the logic of human capital. Study is no longer approached primarily as a space of public, critical, or intellectual formation, but as an investment in future value. In this context, the language of criticality, experimentation, and radical practice can remain fully visible while being emptied of political force.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/provocation.robyncook.xyz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">THEORY\/PRACTICE DASHBOARD v12.1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference: Brown, W. (2015) \u2018Educating Human Capital\u2019, in Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism\u2019s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, pp. 175\u2013200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What remains opaque is how study learns to imitate itself. Under neoliberal conditions, the radical vocabulary of creative inquiry \u2014 risk, experimentation, openness \u2014 is absorbed into metrics of institutional value. Critique becomes something measurable, rewardable, optimised, and available for return. Like the hot dog, registered here through staff accrual points, it offers a recognisable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/robyn-cook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robyn Cook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provocation","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}