Response to Jodi Melamed, “Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis: Forms of Institutionality, In the Making,” published in Lateral 5.1. Tabares invites us to question the role of what he calls ‘para-institutions,’ such as corporations, in shaping and influencing the logics and investments within the university. As a counterpoint to these processes, he ponders the possibilities of seizing upon the elements of proceduralism in mobilizing forms of collectivity that can span across institutional contexts outside the academy.
Articles by Leland Tabares
Leland Tabares is a PhD candidate and the Bunton-Waller Fellow in English at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on neoliberalism, institutionality, and professional labor economies in contemporary Asian American culture and literature. His dissertation project, tentatively titled Asian America in the Age of Professionalization, employs professionalization as a critical analytic to interrogate the neoliberal processes that construct, manage, and regulate Asian American working professionals in the contemporary university, Silicon Valley, the restaurant industry, and YouTube. Leland is currently serving a two-year term as the student representative on the executive board for the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).