Review of The Posthumanist University

Stefan Herbrechter

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    Abstract

    A review of Thomas Docherty, For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution. The higher-ed business is in for a lot of pain as a new era of creative destruction produces a merciless shakeout of those institutions that adapt and prosper from those that stall and die. Meanwhile, students themselves are in for a golden age, characterized by near-universal access to the highest quality teaching and scholarship at minimal cost. The changes ahead will ultimately bring about the most beneficial, most efficient and most equitable access to education that the world has ever seen. There is much to be gained. We may lose the gothic arches, the bespectacled lecturers, dusty books lining the walls of labyrinthine libraries - wonderful images from higher education's past. But nostalgia won't stop the unsentimental beast of progress from wreaking havoc on old ways of doing things. If a faster, cheaper way of sharing information emerges, history shows us that it will quickly supplant what came before. People will not continue to pay tens of thousands of dollars for what technology allows them to get for free.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)121-130
    JournalWord and Text
    Volume3
    Issue number1
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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    Keywords

    • higher education
    • globalisation

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