Toward a Global Autonomous University

Toward a Global Autonomous University Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory
Edu-factory Collective
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	ISBN: 9781570272042 Format: Paperback Subject: Politics Pub Date: 10/01/2009 Publisher: Autonomedia
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Toward a Global Autonomous University Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory The Edu-factory Collective What was once the factory is now the university. We started off with this apparently straightforward affirmation, not in order to assume it but to question it; to open it, radically rethinking it, towards theoretical and political research. The Edu-factory project took off from here….Edu-factory is, above all, a partisan standpoint on the crisis of the university…. The state university is in ruins, the mass university is in ruins, and the university as a privileged place of national culture — just like the concept of national culture itself — is in ruins. We’re not suffering from nostalgia. Quite the contrary, we vindicate the university’s destruction. In fact, the crisis of the university was determined by social movements in the first place. This is what makes us not merely immune to tears for the past but enemies of such a nostalgic disposition. University corporatization and the rise of a global university…are not unilateral impositions or developments completely contained by capitalist rationality. Rather they are the result — absolutely temporary and thus reversible — of a formidable cycle of struggles. The problem is to transform the field of tension delineated by the processes analyzed in this book into specific forms of resistance and the organization of escape routes. This is Edu-factory’s starting point and objective, its style and its method. Contents Introduction: All Power to Self-Education! Edu-factory Collective Production of Knowledge in the Global University The Rise of the Global University, Andrew Ross Eurocentrism, the University, and Multiple Sites of Knowledge Production, Amit Basole Global Assemblages vs. Universalism, Aihwa Ong Management of Knowledge vs. Production of Knowledge Sunil Sahasrabudhey Short–Circuiting the Production of Knowledge Nirmal Puwar & Sanjay Sharma Conditions of Interdisciplinarity, Randy Martin Hierarchies in the Market for Education Lean and Very Mean: Restructuring the University in South Africa, Franco Barchiesi Governmentality and Commodification: The Keys to Yanqui Academic Hierarchy, Toby Miller The Social Production of Hierarchy and What We Can Do About It: Notes from Asia, Xiang Biao Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson The Pedagogy of Debt, Jeffrey Williams Management’s Control Panel, Marc Bousquet Cognitive Labor: Conflicts and Translations Report from the Greek Student Movement, Dionisis Practices of Radical Cartography Counter Cartographies Collective Online Education, Contingent Faculty and Open Source Unionism, Eileen Schell Cognitive Capitalism and Models for the Regulation of Wage Relations, Carlo Vercellone Notes on the Edu–factory and Cognitive Capitalism George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici Translation, Biopolitics and Colonial Difference Naoki Sakai and Jon Solomon The Production of the Common and the Global Autonomous University A Hierarchy of Networks? Ned Rossiter The University and the Undercommons Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Neoliberalism against the Commons, Jason Read The Autonomous University and the Production of the Commons, James Arvanitakis From a Liberal Arts Student, Erik Forman Conflicts in the Production of Knowledge Universidad Experimental The Global Autonomous University, Vidya Ashram On the Institution of the Common Toni Negri and Judith Revel The Corporate University and the Financial Crisis, What Is Going On? Christopher Newfield & edu-factory Collective