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Re-thinking the university project: Academia’s auto-immune disease and the prospect of a cure
- 1.0500283 - FLÚ 2019 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Benda, Libor
Re-thinking the university project: Academia’s auto-immune disease and the prospect of a cure.
Revue Europeenne des Sciences Sociales. Roč. 56, č. 2 (2018), s. 261-274. ISSN 0048-8046
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GJ16-18371Y
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : critical university studies * technological acceleration * speed-elitism * academic capitalism * neoliberalism
OECD category: Sociology
This review essay offers a critical discussion of Ingrid M. Hoofd’s book Higher Education and Technological Acceleration: The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research (2017), providing a reflection of the current state of academia as well as the field of critical university studies. Three topics are particularly discussed in this regard: the notion of university’s “auto-immunity” regarded by Hoofd as the main cause of university’s contemporary pathological transformations, the impact of technological acceleration on academic enterprise, and the very possibility of criticism and radical change within contemporary academia.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0293029
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