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The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History

The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History

Hall, Richard

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1906948542
ISBN13: 9781906948542
Publisher: Mayflybooks/Ephemera
Published: May 14 2021
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The hegemonic University represented in the institutions of the global North is an increasingly hopeless place. Defined against value and generation of surpluses, the University is a critical node in the social metabolic control of capital. As such, it acts to deny human agency and autonomy, forms of mutuality, and alternative life worlds, precisely because it serves to reproduce capitalist social relations. These relations foreclose upon the idea that humans might make their own history, and in fact we have been told that we are at the end of history. Here, the idea that the University exists in a closed system designed to mitigate economic risk, generates structures that constantly restructure intellectual work through joint ventures; cultures that act pathologically to dehumanise those who work in the institution; and practices that are imposed methodologically to limit the horizon of intellectual possibility.

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