Poza uniwersytet-fabrykę. Warunki funkcjonowania „transnarodowego stowarzyszenia kapitałów” w szkolnictwie wyższym

• Authors: Krystian Szadkowski

Title variants

EN

Beyond university-factory. Conditions for operation of “transnational association of capitals”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

W krytycznych badaniach nad szkolnictwem wyższym dużo miejsca w ostatnim czasie poświęcono dyskusji nad – bardziej retoryczną niż analityczną – figurą uniwersytetu jako fabryki. W założeniu miał być to sposób na skupienie niczym w soczewce wszystkich negatywnych zmian odczuwanych przez kadrę akademicką, a związanych ze współczesnymi transformacjami instytucji uniwersytetu. W rzeczywistości jednak przyczyniło się to przede wszystkim do hipostazowania mechanizmów właściwych dla prywatnych przedsiębiorstw na warunki pracy w uczelniach publicznych, uniemożliwiając wyjaśnienie zachodzących w nich procesów. W niniejszym artykule zaproponowano bardziej systemowe ujęcie stosunków zawiązywanych między kapitałem a pracą w krajobrazie szkolnictwa wyższego. W tym celu wprowadzono i skontekstualizowano figurę transnarodowego stowarzyszenia kapitałów. Nacisk został położony na analizę jednej z jego frakcji, mianowicie kapitału handlowego, rozumianego jako oligopolistyczne transnarodowe wydawnictwa naukowe. W artykule ukazano podstawowe warunki funkcjonowania tej frakcji, wiążąc je z rozwojem globalnych rankingów uniwersytetów, a także wykorzystano narzędzia oferowane przez postoperaizm, w celu ukazania relacji zawiązywanej przez kapitał handlowy z pracą akademicką jako ogólnej postaci relacji między kapitałem a pracą biopolityczną, w której kluczową funkcję pełni zdolność kapitału do ustanawiania ram pomiaru.

EN

Recently, within the critical higher education research much attention has been devoted to discussions over a (more rhetorical than analytical) figure of the university as a factory. It was assumed that this will offer a focused view on all the negative changes experienced by the academic faculty and connected with the contemporary transformations of the university. In reality, however, this has contributed primarily to hypostatize the mechanisms proper for private enterprises on working conditions in public universities, making it impossible to explain the processes occurring within them. This article proposes a more systemic approach uncover the relations between capital and labour within the landscape of global higher education. For this purpose the figure of transnational associations of capital was introduced and contextualized. The focus has been placed on the analysis of one of its specific factions, namely the commercial capital, understood as oligopolistic transnational academic publishers. The article shows the basic conditions of viability of operations of this faction, the most important being the development of global university rankings. In the last part the tools offered by postoperaist thinkers were used in order to show the relationship forged between the transnational commercial capital and academic labour as a general form of the relationship between capital and biopolitcal labour, where the key role is played by the ability of capital to establish a proper measurement framework.

Keywords

PL

transnarodowe stowarzyszenie kapitałów; szkolnictwo wyższe; marksizm; wartość; praca niematerialna; miara; globalne rankingi uniwersytetów; Thomson Reuters; uniwersytet- -fabryka

EN

transnational association of capitals; higher education; Marxism; value; immaterial labour; measure; global university rankings; Thomson Reuters; university-factory; transnational association of capitals; higher education; Marxism; value; immaterial labour; measure; global university rankings; Thomson Reuters; university-factory

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 1(45)
• Pages: 235-267

Dates

published

2015-12-01

Contributors

author

Krystian Szadkowski

• Centrum Studiów nad Polityką Publiczną UAM

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/nsw.2015.1.10