disarming the university: a dialogue
Locating the regime of global development to the university, and reinstating the role of students in remaking history and society.
In dialogue with Stefano Harney (co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, formerly Singapore Management University) and Ramya and Ninon Espiritu (student respondents)
EVENT
April 23, Wednesday / 6:00-7:30PM / Zoom online
ABSTRACT
The walk through the university gates—any university gates—feels unusually long. One afternoon I walked out of the halls, passed beyond the gates, and the entrance and exit out of the university made me vow only to be in places where people are actually talking. And I began to think the best way to go about undoing the regime of global business is by ‘disarming’ the university: that is, deconstructing and clarifying its current role in global society, its machineries and entrenchments, and its own history of development. Disarming it as a way to court infinitude. Capitalist economic imaginaries are schooled, supplied, and sustained by the university. As with intelligence—needs a lot of breaking.
KEYWORDS
higher education, professional consensus, prefigurative politics, student movements