Dark Academe

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. His books include Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy (2014), The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Space (2016, co-edited with Peter Hitchcock), Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition (2017), and Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities (2020).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Dark Infrastructure.- 3. Are All Professors Paranoid?.- 4. Affective Education.- 5. Academic Racism.- 6. An Epistemology of Ignorance.- 7. Ugly Theory.- 8. The Pleasure of Cynicism.- 9. Let it Be Your Dread.- 10. The Death of the University.- 11. Coda.