Universities after neoliberalism: A tale of four futures

Dossier: Unmaking the university

We’re used to one-way neoliberalism, regardless of party, in which we keep getting more of its familiar features: public budget austerity, marketisation, privatisation, selective cross-subsidies favouring business and technology, precarisation of professional labour, and structural racism. But under the pressure of international social forces, neoliberalism is increasingly breaking down. These forces include the Covid-19-induced public […]
Cartesian graph. X axis labeled Commons / publicly funded; -X axis signifies privatisation; Y signifies Democratic - rhizome-networked storefronts; -Y signifies Platform; post democratic. X/Y; 3. Equalized: -X/Y; 4. Autonomous. X/-Y: 2. Debt-free; -X/-Y: 1. Fragmented.

The Right To Protest

News The right to protestAs Quebec erupts over plans to increase tuition fees by the equivalent of £200, and twelve people (including Professor Joshua Clover) who protested against a campus bank at University of California–Davis begin a trial that could see them imprisoned for eleven years and fined $1 million each, what of the scores […]