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- Title
Why the Neoliberal U is Making Us Stupid.
- Authors
Kapur, Jyotsna
- Abstract
One of the lasting effects of neoliberalism on higher education is the total dismantling of the very purpose of education, i.e., to enhance human potential, individual self-realization, and social development. In this essay, I read Marx's theory of labor to indicate that Marx's deeply held regard for humanity as capable of self-production and transcending its conditions of existence--which was, in fact the vantage point of his bitter critique of capitalism--also underlies the conception of the true purpose of education, at least since the Enlightenment. In critiquing capital from the point of view of labor we can see how the goals of neoliberalism are anti-education, anti-human, and wasteful. Taking the concept of time--i.e., the relationship between time and intellectual labor and intergenerational relationships within the uni- versity--as a key to understanding the nature of neoliberalism, I argue that the public university is not just collateral damage in the neoliberal assault on labor. Rather, it is one major site of the war itself.
- Subjects
NEOLIBERALISM; HIGHER education; LABOR theory of value; AUTOPOIESIS; CAPITAL; PUBLIC universities &; colleges
- Publication
Democratic Communiqué, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1555-8967
- Publication type
Article