Beyond (and alongside) shameful attachments: The lived experience of critique within the entrepreneurial university

Daniel Leyton*, Gustavo Sánchez

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Abstract

During 2019, we embarked on a fieldwork based on 18 semi-structured interviews with international scholars in the humanities and social sciences in Chilean universities to explore their experiences with knowledge. Drawing on theories of critique and neoliberalism, we analyzed their ambivalent and unsettling conjunction of attachments to neoliberal and critical knowledge formations. By developing the notion of regime of epistemic subjectification, we emphasized the affective intensities these experiences brought to bear amid the differential weight and interplay of neoliberalism and critique as ethico-epistemic modes of engagement. We argued that the dominant focus on neoliberal knowledge and entrepreneurial subjectivity, albeit intense, expansive, and seemingly omnipresent, must be complicated by exposing its ambivalent affective and somatic force, and recognizing the difference between critical academic products and the lived experience of critique. The latter was constituted in the outsides of the inside of the neoliberal knowledge regime.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)251-262
Number of pages12
JournalCultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
Volume24
Issue number4
Early online date13 Mar 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2024

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Keywords

  • Critique
  • neoliberalism
  • regime of subjectification
  • academics
  • affects

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