04460nam a22005175i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001800172072001600190072002300206072001500229100008700244245012800331250001800459264007900477300003400556336002600590337002600616338003600642347002400678490008400702505028800786520227901074650002303353650003203376650001303408650003503421650002903456650004403485650002403529650003803553710003403591773002603625776003603651776003603687776003603723830009103759856004603850912001403896912001503910999001703925978-3-031-56351-5DE-He21320251030112015.0cr nn 008mamaa240427s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315635159978-3-031-56351-57 a10.1007/978-3-031-56351-52doi 4aLB2300-2799.3 7aJNM2bicssc 7aEDU0150002bisacsh 7aJNM2thema1 aDi Leo, Jeffrey R.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97589610aDark Academeh[electronic resource] :bCapitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education /cby Jeffrey R. Di Leo.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVI, 252 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education,x2662-22540 a1. Introduction -- 2. Dark Infrastructure -- 3. Are All Professors Paranoid? -- 4. Affective Education -- 5. Academic Racism -- 6. An Epistemology of Ignorance -- 7. Ugly Theory -- 8. The Pleasure of Cynicism -- 9. Let it Be Your Dread -- 10. The Death of the University -- 11. Coda.  a“It has become difficult to separate the attack on higher education from a frontal attack on democracy itself. Jeffrey Di Leo takes up this theme with unparalleled insight while providing a broad and brilliant context and theoretical framework for understanding and addressing it. And he does so with a prose that is lyrical, poetic, and engagingly disarming. Dark Academe is a brilliant and urgent book that could not appear at a more important time in our history. Every educator, student, cultural worker, and anyone concerned about the fate of the academy in dark times should read this book.” —Henry A. Giroux, Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, McMaster University, Canada This book argues that a critical understanding of dark academe is vital to the futures of democracy and education. Drawing upon contemporary literary and cultural theory, particularly, affect theory, queer epistemology, and critical race theory as well as critiques of capitalism and accounts of the death drive, it builds a case for identifying dark academe as anything that prohibits the pursuit of democratic education and critical citizenship. It also argues that dark times require a reassessment of the ways theory and knowledge are approached in the humanities. This is necessary if the aim is to truly understand the darkness at the heart of the higher education today. Dark academe works to negate education and learning by continuously telling us that the quest for knowledge is empty, and the pursuit of critique is blind. In this educational darkness, the death drive of neoliberal academe becomes a force that works against intellectual transformation and the deepening of critical sights. Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. His books include Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy (2014), The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Space (2016, co-edited with Peter Hitchcock), Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition (2017), and Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities (2020). 0aEducation, Higher. 0aEducation and state.958709 0aFiction. 0aPsychology, Industrial.96053714aHigher Education.96898024aEducational Policy and Politics.97102224aFiction Literature.24aOrganizational Psychology.9725662 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303156350808iPrinted edition:z978303156352208iPrinted edition:z9783031563539 0aPalgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education,x2662-225497589740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56351-5  aZDB-2-EDA  aZDB-2-SXED  c59448d59448