creatives/academics -- passionate attachment to something called "my own work" where there is the possibility of the maximisation of self-expression, provides a compelling status justification but also a disciplinary mechanism for tolerating not just uncertainty and self exploitation but also for staying unprofitably within the creative sector and not abandoning it altogether'.
... the stigmatized person is likely to use his
stigma
for secondary purposes, ...
... to feel that he is "on", having to be self-consiousness
and calculating about the impression he is making,
to a degree and in areas of conduct which he assumes others are not ...
... neo-liberalism found fertile ground in academics whose predispositions to 'work hard'
and 'do well' meshed perfectly with it's demands for autonomous, self motivating,
responsibilised subjects ...