Issue #14 Can the Cognitariat Speak?

Can the Cognitariat Speak?

Isabelle Bruno and Christopher Newfield

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Issue #14
March 2010










Notes
1

See Isabelle Bruno, A vos marques, prêts... cherchez!: la stratégie européenne de Lisbonne, vers un marché de la recherche (Bellecombe-en-Bauges: Éditions du Croquant, 2008).

2

See Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), and “Ending the Budget Wars: Funding the Humanities during a Crisis in Higher Education,” Profession, 2009: 270–284, available at .

3

See Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society (New York: HarperBusiness, 1993).

4

See Antonio Negri and Carlo Vercellone, “Le rapport capital/travail dans le capitalisme cognitive” Multitudes 32 (Spring 2008), ; André Gorz, “Économie de la connaissance, exploitation des savoirs,” Multitudes 15 (Winter 2004), .

5

See Daniel H. Pink, “Free Agent Nation,” Fast Company (December 31, 1997), .

6

Christopher Newfield has argued that most knowledge workers actually belong to a modern version of the Third Estate. See “The Structure and Silence of the Cognitariat,” Eurozine (February 5, 2010), .

7

See the Web sites Academic Ranking of World Universities, and German Academic Exchange Service, .

8

On these thinkers see Malcolm R. Forster, “Guide to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” University of Wisconsin–Madison Philosophy Department (March 19, 1998), , and Mark K. Smith, “Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning,” the encyclopedia of informal education (2001; last updated September 7, 2009), .

9

See “La science à bout de souffle!” anonymous entry posted on November 3, 2009, A la source blog, .

10

See Sylvestre Huet “Nicolas Sarkozy annonce une accélération des réformes du Cnrs et des universités,” entry posted on January 22, 2009, Sciences2 blog, .

11

See Bill Reid, “The Spirit of Haida Gwaii” Bill Reid Foundation, .

12

Ibid.

13

See the Remaking the University blog, .

14

See the Edu-Factory Web site, .

15

See Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991).

16

See Newfield, “The Structure and Silence of the Cognitariat.”