Art students have no business on technology institute campus

TO have been born in a republic and live now in an economy, as Theo Dorgan has put it, arises not from some mass conversion to new constitutional principles but simply from the silent tyranny of the market philosophy.

It is taken as read that the value of anything worthwhile is revealed, conclusively and exclusively, by the bottom line.

We are seen only as part of an economic patchwork; the family is merely an economic unit, female, male, single, married, teenager, student - all economic sets and sub-sets, all neatly arranged and rationalised, quantified and valued. Job done.