Editor: Scott McCracken
What
does intellectual work mean today? has knowledge become a commodity? Have
qualifications become status symbols? Are claims about the decline of intellectual
work a new form of elitism or a protest against the instrumentalisation
of knowledge? What is the relationship between intellectual work and the
new division of labour? In this timely and important collection of essays,
academics working in Britain and the United States address the role of intellectual
work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Essays discuss: the university
in the context of globalisation; the role of the public intellectual; the
rhetoric of the 'knowledge economy'; the new work culture; critical theory
and political protest; and the kinds of intellectual work appropriate to
the present conjuncture.
Deborah Cameron; Phil Cohen; Andrew Gamble; Keya Ganguly; Scott McCracken; Jacqueline Rose; Jani Scandura; Peter Scott; Stephen Shapiro
CONTENTS
Scott McCracken Editorial
Phil Cohen A Place to Think?: Some Reflections on the Idea of the
University in the Age of the 'Knowledge Economy'
Peter Scott Prospects for Knowledge Work: Critical Engagement or
Expert Conscription?
Andrew Gamble Public
Intellectuals and the Public Domain
Deborah Cameron Talking Up Skill and Skilling Up Talk
Scott McCracken Idleness for All
Stephen Shapiro Marx To The Rescue!: Queer Theory And The Crisis
of Prestige
Keya Ganguly The Work of Forgetting: Raymond Williams and the Problem
of Experience
Jani Scandura Cinematic Insomnia
Jacqueline Rose The Body of Evil
REVIEWS
Mary Baine Campbell Strategic Universalism?
Andrew Gibson The Rarity of the Event: On Alain Badiou
Jon Klancher The Modern Prints
David Cunningham Making It Newer
Judith Surkis Queering the Spheres
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