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The Interlude in Academe
Reclaiming Time and Space for Intellectual Life
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2023
Summary
This book is an exploration of the idea that interludes – or disruptions to our usual rhythms, rituals, and routines – offer individuals and institutions alike an incomparable opportunity to examine the governing assumptions that undergird academic work and to experiment with alternative modes and models of intellectual life. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as the prime example of an externally imposed interlude on a mass scale, the book argues that the compulsion of most colleges and universities to “return to business as usual” reveals that the “business” of the academic enterprise is only tangentially about learning, ideas, or the life of the mind. It is mostly about keeping the institutional machinery running at all costs, typically at the behest of state and market forces. Meanwhile, interludes of any size or duration, from massively disruptive global pandemics to brief elective personal retreats, offer occasions for interrogating our entrenched policies and practices and are simultaneously spaces for the pursuit of learning and idea play both within and beyond institutions.
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2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0043-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0044-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
174
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
What the Pandemic Has Unmasked No access
Command Performances No access
Finding Refuge and Regeneration in Temporary Autonomous Zones No access
Seeking Asylum in Freedom University No access
MOOC-topia No access
Antiuniversity Now No access
Privatization No access
“Thinking Little” (Practice, Not Policy) No access
