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Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Speed and Academic Blindness; The Tyranny of Transparency: Academia's Auto-immunity; Theories of the Neo-liberal University: Humanism Accelerated; The Compulsory Optimism of the Accelerated Academic; The Quest for Complete Knowledge: Visibility, Transparency, Technology; Chapter 2: Coercive Invitations of Universality; The Promise of Thought: Chasing Universal Access to Education; Digital Learning Tools and the Illusion of Student Empowerment; Creativity, Criticality, and Digitalism in the Global Asian University.
Accelerated Illusions of Democracy and CriticalityThe Annexation of the Post-colonies into the Global Vision Machine; Chapter 3: Idealistic Self-Delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia; From Renaissance Man to the Perverse University; Nostalgic Violence and the Questioning Ethic; An Ethics and Pedagogy of Justice: Neo-liberal Antidotes?; The Critique of Methods as Generous Teaching; On the Limits of Justice, Democracy, and Transparency; Chapter 4: The Double-Bind of/in Activist-Academic Research; Cybernetic Communication and the 'Pure' University.
Communication for Social Change: The Rise of a ParadigmNew University Projects and the Acceleration of Thought; Productive Crossings: Academia and Alter- Globalist Activism; The Dissemination of'Social Change' via 'Social Media'; Chapter 5: A Fatally Wounded University?; Caught Between Passion and Exhaustion; Out of the Ashes of Academia?; Bibliography; Index.
Accelerated Illusions of Democracy and CriticalityThe Annexation of the Post-colonies into the Global Vision Machine; Chapter 3: Idealistic Self-Delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia; From Renaissance Man to the Perverse University; Nostalgic Violence and the Questioning Ethic; An Ethics and Pedagogy of Justice: Neo-liberal Antidotes?; The Critique of Methods as Generous Teaching; On the Limits of Justice, Democracy, and Transparency; Chapter 4: The Double-Bind of/in Activist-Academic Research; Cybernetic Communication and the 'Pure' University.
Communication for Social Change: The Rise of a ParadigmNew University Projects and the Acceleration of Thought; Productive Crossings: Academia and Alter- Globalist Activism; The Dissemination of'Social Change' via 'Social Media'; Chapter 5: A Fatally Wounded University?; Caught Between Passion and Exhaustion; Out of the Ashes of Academia?; Bibliography; Index.