Reflections on the Future University: Introduction

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Notes

Notes

1. “The Future University,” Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, UK, 30 June–2 July 2011; (www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1321).

2. Bernard Stiegler, “Our Ailing Educational Institutions,” Culture Machine 5 (2003); (http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/258/243); and Stiegler, For a New Critique of Political Economy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010). See also Patrick Crogan, “Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler,” Cultural Politics: An International Journal 6.2(July 2010): 157–70.

3. An “infinite we of geometers” alludes at once to the sign over Plato's Academy (No one ignorant of geometry may enter) and to Husserl's Origins of Geometry, thus to the notion of an academic community and the conditions of rational thought.

4. Stiegler developed Gilbert Simondon's concept of individuation with reference to the works of Plato, Husserl, and Derrida, amongst others, in his keynote address “Pharmacology of the University: Towards a Spiritual Peace Treaty” (altered from the title in the printed programme). Citations from this and other papers presented at the conference are from my own notes.

5. The definitions are taken from the glossary of terms of the Ars Industrialis website (http://www.arsindustrialis.org/glossary), “an international association for an industrial politics of the technologies of spirit” founded by Stiegler to disseminate his ideas and those of the group's associates, and to develop dialogues and actions to counter the global process of disindividuation. Translations from this website are my own (accessed 8.10.2012).

6. Alan Liu, “Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” in “The Future University,” CRASSH.

7. Cathy Davidson, “Digital Literacies and the Future of the Humanities,” in “The Future University,” CRASSH.

8. Danielle Allen, “Strong Ties: Why Democracies Still Need Universities in the Digital Age,” in “The Future University,” CRASSH.

9. Don Randel, President of the Mellon Foundation, in the panel discussion on “The Fate of the Humanities,” in “The Future University,” CRASSH.

10. Chris Newfield, “Refunding the Humanities: The Case for Succession,” in “The Future University,” CRASSH.

11. Christopher Newfield and the Edu-factory Collective, “The Corporate University and the Financial Crisis: What Is Going On?” in Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory (New York: Autonomedia, 2009), 183.