This interlude addresses the issue of modes of subjectivation within contemporary global science. It explores these modes through the figure of the ‘Academic Robinson’, highlighting individualisation and separation as key outcomes. This chapter deconstructs these outcomes by engaging with critiques of Robinsonades in critical theory. It argues that the figure of the Academic Robinson is founded on a causal reversal, wherein the invisible conditions necessary for academic individuation are reconstructed to present the global science order as merely the sum of individual choices driven by the maximisation of personal profit. This leads to a specific experience of alienation and reification in global academia, which, although connecting the labour of myriad individuals across the globe, presents these connections in an individualised form. The interlude concludes by providing a positive articulation of what the ‘Academic Robinson’ obscures: the common.