Overview
- Draws on affect theory, queer epistemology, and critical race theory
- Builds on previous work by Lauren Berlant, Karen Ruhleder, Susan Leigh Star, and others
- Conceptualizes the phenomenon of 'dark academe' in neoliberal times
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education (PSGPCFE)
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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.
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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).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dark Academe
Book Subtitle: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education
Authors: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56351-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56350-8Published: 28 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56353-9Published: 29 April 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56351-5Published: 27 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-2246
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2254
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 252
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Fiction, Industrial and Organizational Psychology