Government response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic promises to entrench austerity politics deeper into the organization of academic life, and audit regimes are the likely means of achieving this. Redoubled efforts to understand the operation of audit as a strategic technology of control are therefore clearly a priority. A distinctly anthropological literature has emerged over recent years to analyse and understand audit culture in academia, but what seems to be missing are analyses capable of bringing the disparate techniques experienced in academic audit together into coherent technologies, and identifying how these technologies thereby constitute a distinct audit regime within the broader audit culture. While the anthropological literature implicitly calls for further historical and conceptual exploration of the rationality to these techniques, what is required is the translation of our understanding of audit rationality into a presentation of the concrete techniques of control as they are experienced, so that more effective counter-conducts and resistances can be conceived. This article indicates how an excursion into the Soviet Gulag, and the political technology of the ‘camp’ that is its principal apparatus, can reveal not merely how the techniques of audit operate, but also indicate how those techniques might be engaged tactically in the academic setting. This kind of analogic analysis can allow us to understand audit in ways more promising for resistance to its idiomatic power, replacing demoralized and helpless resignation with inspirational exempla. Politically, the article argues that ‘techniques of the self’ are not only necessary to engage audit techniques through particular kinds of counter-conduct, but how these counter-conducts are contributory to the organized and concerted kind of resistance that we so desperately desire. The practice of tukhta is singled out and introduced as an illustrative means for combining survival strategies with the development of critical rationality in praxis.

政府对持续发生的 COVID-19 大流行的反应有望将紧缩政治深入到学术生活的组织中，而审计制度是实现这一目标的可能手段。因此，加倍努力将审计的运作理解为一种战略控制技术显然是当务之急。近年来出现了一种明显的人类学文献来分析和理解学术界的审计文化，但似乎缺少的是能够将学术审计中体验到的不同技术结合在一起的分析，并确定这些技术如何由此构成一个独特的更广泛的审计文化中的审计制度. 虽然人类学文献隐含地呼吁对这些技术的合理性进行进一步的历史和概念探索，但需要将我们对审计合理性的理解转化为对它们所经历的具体控制技术的介绍，以便更有效地反击- 可以设想导电和电阻。这篇文章指出了对苏联古拉格的考察，以及作为其主要机构的“集中营”的政治技术，不仅可以揭示审计技术的运作方式，而且还表明这些技术如何在学术上有策略地运用。环境。这种类比分析可以让我们以更有希望的方式来理解审计，以抵制其惯用的力量，用鼓舞人心的榜样代替士气低落和无助的辞职。在政治上，这篇文章认为，“自我技术”不仅是通过特定类型的反行为来使用审计技术所必需的，而且这些反行为是如何促成我们迫切渴望的有组织、协调一致的抵抗的。的做法tukhta被挑选出来作为一种说明性手段，将生存策略与实践中的批判理性的发展相结合。