What was once the factory is now the university.

We started off with this apparently straightforward affirmation, not in order to assume it but to question it; to open it, radically rethinking it, towards theoretical and political research. The Edu-factory project took off from here….Edu-factory is, above all, a partisan standpoint on the crisis of the university…. The state university is in ruins, the mass university is in ruins, and the university as a privileged place of national culture — just like the concept of national culture itself — is in ruins.

We’re not suffering from nostalgia. Quite the contrary, we vindicate the university’s destruction. In fact, the crisis of the university was determined by social movements in the first place. This is what makes us not merely immune to tears for the past but enemies of such a nostalgic disposition.

University corporatization and the rise of a global university…are not unilateral impositions or developments completely contained by capitalist rationality. Rather they are the result — absolutely temporary and thus reversible — of a formidable cycle of struggles. The problem is to transform the field of tension delineated by the processes analyzed in this book into specific forms of resistance and the organization of escape routes.

This is Edu-factory’s starting point and objective, its style and its method.

Contents

• Introduction: All Power to Self-Education!

  Edu-factory Collective

• Production of Knowledge in the Global University
• The Rise of the Global University

  Andrew Ross

• Eurocentrism, the University, and Multiple Sitesof Knowledge Production

  Amit Basole

• Global Assemblages vs. Universalism

  Aihwa Ong

• Management of Knowledge vs. Production of Knowledge

  Sunil Sahasrabudhey

• Short–Circuiting the Production of Knowledge

  Nirmal Puwar & Sanjay Sharma

• Conditions of Interdisciplinarity

  Randy Martin

• Hierarchies in the Market for Education
• Lean and Very Mean: Restructuring the Universityin South Africa

  Franco Barchiesi

• Governmentality and Commodification: The Keysto Yanqui Academic Hierarchy

  Toby Miller

• The Social Production of Hierarchy and What WeCan Do About It: Notes from Asia

  Xiang Biao

• Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

  Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson

• The Pedagogy of Debt

  Jeffrey Williams

• Management’s Control Panel

  Marc Bousquet

• Cognitive Labor: Conflicts and Translations
• Report from the Greek Student Movement

  Dionisis

• Practices of Radical Cartography

  Counter Cartographies Collective

• Online Education, Contingent Facultyand Open Source Unionism

  Eileen Schell

• Cognitive Capitalism and Models for the Regulationof Wage Relations

  Carlo Vercellone

• Notes on the Edu–factory and Cognitive Capitalism

  George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici

• Translation, Biopolitics and Colonial Difference

  Naoki Sakai and Jon Solomon

• The Production of the Commonand the Global Autonomous University
• A Hierarchy of Networks?

  Ned Rossiter

• The University and the Undercommons

  Stefano Harney and Fred Moten

• Neoliberalism against the Commons

  Jason Read

• The Autonomous University and the Productionof the Commons

  James Arvanitakis

• From a Liberal Arts Student

  Erik Forman

• Conflicts in the Production of Knowledge

  Universidad Experimental

• The Global Autonomous University

  Vidya Ashram

• On the Institution of the Common

  Toni Negri and Judith Revel

• The Corporate University and the Financial Crisis, What Is Going On?

  Christopher Newfield & edu-factory Collective

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