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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

The Future for Academics

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Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University

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Giroux (2006, p.8) likens the post 9/11 American university to a militarized knowledge factory. Isaac Cordal (Wang, 2015) an artist, captures this in his miniature installations which depict factory-like settings, but in which no items are actually produced. The industrial setting of rows of white lab-coated middle-aged men engaged in busy work conjures a sterile, pointless environment in which students and academics have become slaves of production. Skeletal overlords supervise the industry in which universities are now a business and students have turned into customers.

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Collins, P. (2017). Where Have All the Flowers Gone?. In: Riddle, S., Harmes, M.K., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_10

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