You might be interested in Shukaitis & Graeber's "Constituent Imagination" (available on Library Genesis): "Or is there something wrong with universities in ge

You might be interested in Shukaitis & Graeber's "Constituent Imagination" (available on Library Genesis): "Or is there something wrong with universities in general? "On the other hand one could just as well ask: why is it we assume that creative and relevant ideas should be coming out of universities in the first place? The modern university system has existed only a few hundred years and during most of that time, universities were not places that much fostered innovation or the questioning of received knowledge. They were largely places for compiling and redacting received knowledge and teaching students to respect authority. The old-fashioned stereotype of the professor as a greybeard pedant fussing over some obscure interpretation of a Latin epode, unaware of or disdainful of the world around him, was not really that far from the truth. For the most part, universities were dominated by figures who were scholars but in no sense intellectuals. "[...] From this perspective, what we saw in the ’60s was something rather unusual: a brief moment when the model changed." (Though regarding the sciences, Graeber mentions a combination of 1970's neoliberalism plus managerialism & bureaucratization of universities.)