Adorno seems to have hit the experience of doing a PhD in the humanities on the head in his essay on ‘Free Time’ (in The Culture Industry, Routledge, 2001):
Free time is shackled to its opposite. (187)
And again:
Free time [...] does not merely stand in opposition to labour. [For the stressed-out PhD student,] free time is nothing more than a shadowy continuation of labour. (194)
Sound familiar…?
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