As was the factory, so now is the university. Where once the factory was a paradigmatic site of struggle between workers and capitalists, so now the university is a key space of conflict, where the ownership of knowledge, the reproduction of the labour force, and the creation of social and cultural stratifications are all at stake. This is to say the university is not just another institution subject to sovereign and governmental controls, but a crucial site in which wider social struggles are won and lost.
To be sure, these changes occur as capitalism gives new importance to the production of knowledge, and in the advanced capitalist world, moves such production of knowledge to the centre of the economy. With this movement, the university also loses its monopoly in this same sphere of knowledge production. Perhaps it once made sense to speak of town and gown. But now the borders between the university and society blur.
This merging of university and society takes diverse forms. It can be shaped by the pressure to market degrees. Or it can be forced by measures that link the provision of funding to ‘technological transfer’ or collaboration with ‘partners’ from government and/or commercial enterprises. Similarly, the growing precariousness of academic work means that many labour both in and out of the university, not to mention the labour conditions for non-academic workers. And the opening of many universities to previously excluded cohorts of students, whether on the basis of social class or national jurisdiction, means that their internal composition has also changed.
These transformations both shift the possibilities for political expression in the university and initiate new kinds of struggle. In some instances, a politicised student movement has disappeared. In others has begun to grow. The transnationalisation of many university operations, including the internationalisation and diversification of the student body, introduces new kinds of cultural conflicts and tensions. At the same time, the university is derailed from its traditional mission of safeguarding the national and official culture. How are we to make sense of these changes, and, above all, how should they inform radical political investigation and action?
The university is a key site for intervention because it is now a global site. Indeed, there is no such thing as ‘the university’ but only universities, in their specific geographical, economic, and cultural locations. Even within universities there exists a range of labour practices and conditions as well as different cultures of organisation. If, in analogy to the factory of yesteryear, we are to understand the university as a paradigmatic site of struggle, we must first map and understand these differences (even as they are taking shape), not as an end in itself but as means of generating shared resources to meet the conflicts at hand.
課程要求
1. 上課前一天將1頁的閱讀筆記post在課程部落格上，（30%）。
2. 課堂口頭報告，附書面大綱(30%)。
3. 期末報告（40%）。
課程介紹
第三週 10/03
陳光興、錢永祥，〈新自由主義全球化之下的學術生產〉
陳光興，〈全球化，遺忘所有非英語文化？〉
第四週 10/10
放假
第五週 10/17
David Harvey, Neoliberalism, 1-63
第六週 10/24
David Harvey, Neoliberalism, 64-119
第七週 10/31
Yann Moulier Boutang, “Cognitive Capitalism and Entrepreneurship”
第八週 11/07
Louis Althusser, “ideology and Ideological States Apparatuses” http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/LPOE70ii.html
第九週 11/14 期中考試週
《鬥爭俱樂部》
第十週 11/21
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism” http://cartome.org/foucault.htm
第十一週 11/28
Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter, “From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labour, Life and Unstable Networks”
第十二週 12/05
Franco Ingrassia, “The Post-state university: hypotheses, tendencies, wagers”
Ned Rossiter, “Informational Universities and Neoliberalism as a Condition of Possibility”
第十三週 12/19
Andrew Ross, “Rise of the Global University”
第十五週 12/26
趙剛，〈反全球化該召喚出什麼樣的知識與政治──「慢社會學」的一個初步勾勒〉http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/csa/journal/journal_park65.htm#b36
第十六週 01/02
馬庫賽（Herbert Marcuse）〈導論 批判的麻痺：沒有反對派的社會〉《單面人》
第十七週 01/09
Sohail Inayatullah, “The Futures of Neohumanist Education”
Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, “Forces Shaping University Futures” http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/Forces%20Shaping%20University%20Futures.htm
Constructing Future Higher Education Scenarios: Insights from Universiti Sains Malaysia
