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- Title: Post-Intellectuality? Universities and the Knowledge Industry (Part Three: The University and Global Restructuring: The Scholars Meet the Market) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Arena Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2002
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 267 KB
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Introduction While 'knowledge' is regarded as the twenty-first century commodity and the saviour of economies, nations, and communities alike, universities, once considered the prime institutional sites of knowledge, are in a state of crisis. The increased production and circulation of knowledge via media and information technologies, as well as the creation of knowledge from alternative sources such as commercial R & D centres or private think-tanks has meant that the taken-for-granted assumptions concerning the role of the university are increasingly being called into question. As Bill Readings pointed out, '[t]he wider social role of the university is up for grabs. It is no longer clear what the place of the university is within society, nor what the exact nature of that society is'. (1) While traditional defences of the university along the lines of Newman or Humboldt have been passionately mounted, (2) they do not seem to have gained much purchase among the wider community, or even within the university itself. This does not mean that they ought to be dismissed, however. The more traditional 'idea of the university' and the kinds of knowledge it produces still remain a powerful, if somewhat muted, ideal. Indeed it is arguable that a more traditional understanding of knowledge--the idea that knowledge has both an ennobling aspect and a crucial role in the self-interpretation of societies--remains a motivating ideal behind the embrace of the knowledge society. However, much of the current enthusiasm for knowledge fails to go beyond merely invoking the term and considering its benefits as a tradeable commodity. The differing modalities of knowledge--information, cultural and social interpretation, wisdom and so on--are frequently collapsed together within a more instrumental framework, especially in the claims of those who wish to reinvigorate the university by harnessing its potential as 'knowledge producer'. Arguably, it is this relatively unexamined conception of knowledge that has allowed academics to largely accept the corporatization of their own institutions, for at least (in their eyes) they can go on producing knowledge, and thus do what they have always done, albeit under increasingly difficult circumstances.
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