Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age

Justin Cruickshank is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in critical university studies, critical responses to authoritarian neoliberalism, and the philosophy of social science. Ross Abbinnett is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in classical and contemporary critical theory, and the social theory and philosophy of technology and technocracy.

• AcknowledgementsEditors’ IntroductionPart 1 Authoritarian Neoliberalism Challenged1. The Feudal University in the Age of Gaming the SystemCruickshank, J.2. Ethnoracial Populism: An Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization?Antonio, R.J.3. On Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Poetic EpistemologyHall, R. Engagements4. The Perils of Radical Subjectivity. A Comment on Antonio’s ‘Ethnoracial Populism: An Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization?’Queiroz, R. 5. The American University, the Politics of Professors and the Narrative of ‘Liberal Bias’Tyson, C. and Oreskes, N. 6. Epistemic Institutions: The Case for Constitutionally-Protected Academic IndependenceMilne, O. 7. ‘Let us Build a City and a Tower’: Figures of the University in Gregor Reisch’s (1503) Margarita PhilosophicaHudson-Miles, R. 8. Toward a Civic Ethic for Education: Arnold, Eliot (George) and Du BoisLybeck, E. Part 2 Technology: Problems and Potentials 9. The Anthropocene as a Figure of Neoliberal HegemonyAbbi

A comprehensive account of how neoliberalism turned what should be a transformative and critical experience into a financialised and commodified process. This is a useful collection of essays that helps us to understand the audit culture, surveillance technologies and instrumental logic of a marketised higher education system.