[LAF] ephemera 'University, Failed' issue released

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

ephemera 'University, Failed' issue released

The new issue (8.3) of ephemera: theory & politics in organization  
entitled 'University, Failed' has just been released at www.ephemeraweb.org 
  .

This issue is a call to discussion regarding the modern university,  
and what we seek to achieve with it is to highlight the discussions  
already taking place within the university, and to spurn on some new  
ones.
Yet, as the entrance to today's Humboldt University tells us, such  
interpretation is not enough. What counts is change.  Such change  
cannot, we believe, be achieved solely by the university itself. This  
insight creates huge challenges for other issues and interventions  
regarding the university of tomorrow: to open the discussion to other  
shareholders and constituencies within the knowledge factory, to pave  
ground for other residuals, where a university may take place.

Where are these places? And what do 'the people' – the students, the  
politicians, the medias, the immigrants, the elderly, the people –  
want with the university? Underneath the seductive toasts and touching  
speeches that the university enjoys again and again, unmistakable  
signs of mistrust secrete. A dialogue about this mistrust (which  
dwells well, also, within the university itself) may be what lies  
ahead, meshed up with the ongoing grand failure of the university.

The editorial collective


CONTENTS
www.ephemeraweb.org    volume 8, number 3 (august 2008)

editorial
University, Failed
Armin Beverungen, Stephen Dunne and Bent M. Sørensen

articles
The Psychotic University
Burkard Sievers

Institutionalizing Critique: A Problem of Critical Management Studies
Todd Bridgman and Murdoch Stephens

interviews
Discussing the Role of the Business School
Stephen Dunne, Stefano Harney, Martin Parker and Tony Tinker

Epistemic Convenience: An Interview with Steve Fuller
Thomas Basbøll and Steve Fuller

notes
No Future
Paolo Do

 From Enthusiasm to Exhaustion:  A Day in the Life of a Human  
Geography Lecturer
Kye Askins

I Wanted to Be an Academic, Not 'A Creative': Notes on Universities  
and the New Capitalism
Eeva Berglund

We Are All Workers: A Class Analysis of University Labour Strikes
Amy Pason

reviews
What's It All For? Against Schooling in the Corporate
University
Chris Land

The Invention of the Business School
Nick Butler
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