Ghostwriting: Simulacra of Academic Performance

The article is a book review on “Ethnography of Bogus. Who and how writes customized academic essays in Russia” by A. Davydov P. Abramov (Moscow: Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research: Common Place, 2021, 176 p.). This describes the practices contract cheating Russian higher education as an established social institution involving undergraduate graduate students. Bogus” presents faculty staff only resource market ghostwriting: explicit when teachers become ghostwriters, or implicit resource, formalist assessment mechanisms student work contribute to development ghostwriting practices. description study reveals decline concept research advisor students, due precarity education. incited mass entry policy efficient management institutions. As result, students who turn regular manner do not develop professional skills appropriate degree. their soft required interactions with ghost-writers they negotiate terms customers writing services.