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Anomalies

Marc Bousquet

After Cultural Capitalism

74

Revista Multitud

The Double Crisis of the Chilean University

90

Pedro Barbosa Mendes

The Double Crisis of the University

96

Claudia Bernardi and Andrea Ghelfi

We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis, We Will Create Institutions of the Common!

108

Lina Dokuzović and Eduard Freudmann

Squatting the Crisis. On the current protests in education and perspectives on radical change

119

Appendix

Uninomade

Nothing Will Never Be the Same. Ten Thesis on the Financial Cri­sis

127

Theme for Zero Issue:

The Double Crisis of the University and the Global Economy

The zero issue of the new transnational journal edu-factory will critically interrogate the proposition that the present is a time of crisis. What are the connections between the global economic downturn and the ongoing transformations of the university? In mainstream analysis, the current economic situation is referred to as a global financial crisis, as if a distinction could be drawn between finance and the productive economy. The notion of crisis has also been long deployed to describe the changes to higher education under neoliberal conditions that seem to be mutating with the present economic instability. What are the mutual implications of these two senses of crisis? Does it make sense to speak of a double crisis of the university and the global economy? Is it possible to isolate the current predicament as pertaining only to economics as if it doesn’t extend into other spheres of human activity? How can we question the current use of the category of crisis, rethinking it to open spaces and times for new institutional forms and new kinds of social relations?

edu-factory seeks articles that engage the following themes:

• The implications of the economic downturn for universities (academic employment, higher education export, research degree recruitment, etc.)

• Shifts in the production of knowledge and/or the organization of such production around innovation

• Effects of the economic meltdown across higher education settings in different global contexts

• Student debt in an era of credit crunch

• Universities and finance (the contribution of the higher education sector to the current economic 'meltdown')

• Ranking systems – the relations between league tables and credit rankings

• The place and role of conflicts and social movements in the nexus of universities and economic transition

• Temporalities of ‘crisis’ – does the model of the cycle still apply to economic rhythms and/or those of struggles?

• The return of economic determinism as an analytic key for understanding the current moment and its dangers for struggles against sexism, racism, heteronormativity, neo-colonialism, islamophobia …

• Autonomous education in a time of ‘crisis’