The Hopeless University

Released on by Richard Hall
preview-18

  • The Hopeless University Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Hall
  • Release Date : 2021-05-14
  • Publisher : Mayflybooks/Ephemera
  • Genre :
  • Pages : 314
  • ISBN 13 : 9781906948542
  • File Size : 3,3 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Hopeless University by Richard Hall PDF Summary

Book Description: 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. However, the intersection of crises of political economy, black and indigenous lives, climate and environment, and epidemiology, have exposed the fraud at the heart of narratives of the end of History. A range of intersecting struggles have exposed the fraud of the transhistorical inevitability that capitalism will be our operating system. In spite of the fragility of capital's social metabolic control, the University remains committed to repurposing all of social life in the name of value, by working towards employability, entrepreneurship, excellence, impact and satisfaction. The University is a critical node in the denial of History, precisely because it provides a constant funnelling of individuals into a normalised existence framed by debt and work. Faced by the realities and lived experiences of intersecting crises, the University is revealed as hopeless, because: first, it has become a place that has no socially-useful role beyond the reproduction of capital, and has become an anti-human project devoid of hope; and second, it is unable to respond meaningfully with crises that erupt from the contradictions of capital. Thus. in its maintenance of business-as-usual, the University remains shaped as a tactical response to these contradictions.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Hopeless University books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Hopeless University

The Hopeless University

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 4622 Views
DOWNLOAD

The hegemonic University represented in the institutions of the global North is an increasingly hopeless place. Defined against value and generation of surpluse

Hope for the Hopeless

Hope for the Hopeless

File Size : 19,19 MB
Total View : 4714 Views
DOWNLOAD

Hope for the Hopeless continues the journey of Charles Mulli started in the best-selling biography Father to the Fatherless. His journey of faith challenges him

The Campus Novel

The Campus Novel

File Size : 73,73 MB
Total View : 1777 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Campus Novel elucidates the intercultural exchange between the well-established Western canon of British and American academic fiction and its more recent r