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  • Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education

    Dark Academe by Di Leo, Jeffrey R.;

    Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education

    Series: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2024
    • Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
    • Date of Publication 28 April 2024
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031563508
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages252 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVI, 252 p. Illustrations, black & white
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    This book argues that a critical understanding of dark academe is vital to the futures of democracy and education. Drawing upon contemporary literary and cultural theory, particularly, affect theory, queer epistemology, and critical race theory as well as critiques of capitalism and accounts of the death drive, it builds a case for identifying dark academe as anything that prohibits the pursuit of democratic education and critical citizenship. It also argues that dark times require a reassessment of the ways theory and knowledge are approached in the humanities. This is necessary if the aim is to truly understand the darkness at the heart of the higher education today. Dark academe works to negate education and learning by continuously telling us that the quest for knowledge is empty, and the pursuit of critique is blind. In this educational darkness, the death drive of neoliberal academe becomes a force that works against intellectual transformation and the deepening of critical sights.


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    Table of Contents:

    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.

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