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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 251-262 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 13 Mar 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2024 |
Bibliographical note
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- Critique
- neoliberalism
- regime of subjectification
- academics
- affects