In this article, the authors highlight numerous encounters with and critiques of academic life in the corporate university. From disagreements with colleagues and anxiousness over the job market to internal compromises over epistemological and ontological moorings and the overall messiness of the research act, they highlight the increasing market demands and orientations governing academic performance if not survival. They also self-reflexively engage in critique of their own location to and position within their current field(s) of inquiry, and how to chart a way forward toward a more egalitarian end.