Strategies within the institutions

There's so many struggles going on within the University system right now, from Austria to the LCC and London Met stuff in London, to UC Santa Cruz etc. I wonder what take we can discuss on the merits of struggles within (and sometimes against) the University? Here's a detailed discursive project:


















"Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory"

Edu-factory is planning to build up a transnational network of research, education and knowledge production, based on struggles, experiments and experiences that already exist across the globe.

"Toward a Global Autonomous University" is the book edited by the edu-factory collective based on two years of web-based discussion on conflicts and transformations of the university.

This book is a tool to articulate student and faculty struggles within university systems at the global level and to build up a global autonomous university. We do not want to enter the education market. On the contrary, our aim is to open a process of conflict in the knowledge production system and question its mechanisms of hierarchisation.

EduFactory Book Release and Panel London 24/11

Tuesday November 24th 4-6pm
Francis Bancroft Building, Room 3.26
University of London, Queen Mary, Mile End Road, London

edu-factory & Queen Mary University present Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory edu-factory Collective (2009 Autonomedia)

A panel discussion with:
Marc Bousquet (Santa Clara University)
Anna Curcio (edu-factory)
Mary Evans (University of Kent)
Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths )
Gigi Roggero (edu-factory)
Stevphen Shukaitis (Autonomedia)

Chair: Stefano Harney (Queen Mary)

Reception to follow