The University in Dissent by Gary Rolfe - 9780415681155

The University in DissentScholarship in the corporate university\nAuthor(s): Gary Rolfe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415681155, 978-0415681155\nSynopsis\nThe rise of corporatism in the North American University was charted by Bill Readings in the mid nineteen-nineties in his book The University in Ruins. The intervening years have seen the corporate university grow and extend to the point where its evolution into a large business corporation is seemingly complete. Rolfes book examines the factors contributing to the transformation of the university from a site of culture and knowledge to what might be termed an information factory, and explores strategies for how, in Readings words, members of the academic community might continue to dwell in the ruins of the university in a productive and authentic way.\n\nDrawing on the work of critics and philosophers such as Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze, The Uni.