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Weaving and hoarding<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There\u2019s a striking moment in George Eliot\u2019s 1861 novel,\u00a0Silas Marner<\/em>, when the miserly weaver is described as being so entirely reduced to the \u201cfunctions of weaving and hoarding\u201d that his face and figure shrink and bend themselves into \u201ca constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life\u201d. Marner works his loom and counts his coins, withering into the shape of his toil; his eyes, which used to look \u201ctrusting and dreamy\u201d, now appear as if \u201cthey had been made to see only one kind of thing that was very small\u201d.<\/p>\n

Eliot imagines Marner\u2019s diminishment as commensurate with that of others who are isolated from community through their self-absorbed attention to work. She writes that the same process has been \u201cundergone by wiser men\u201d, who, instead of \u201ca loom and a heap of guineas\u201d, have \u201csome erudite research, some ingenious project, or some well-knit theory\u201d that narrows and hardens their lives into \u201ca mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction that [has] no relation to any other being\u201d.<\/p>\n

Substitute \u201cweaver\u201d for \u201cacademic\u201d and \u201cguineas\u201d for \u201cresearch outputs\u201d and the picture is familiar enough. Academia often encourages a kind of hoarding and miserliness; our ideas must be protected and tallied, and, like Marner, we are reduced to mere functions. We too are shrunk and bent in relation to our function, and our dreamy trust in colleagues is replaced with a more cynical and narrow strategic vision. Our participation in community is always fraught, since what we are taught to desire is only our own good; collegiality is always tinged with suspicion and jealousy.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Jedidiah Evans is an associate lecturer in the department of writing studies at the University of Sy<\/em>dney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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