Traces 5: Universities in Translation: The Mental Labour of Globalization

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Contents T R A C E S : 5 vii Contents Statement of Purpose v List of Editors vi Contributors ix Introduction 1 Brett de Bary By Way of a Preface, Whither Intellectuals? (Seoul, Moscow) A Presentiment of the Death of Intellectuals in Korean Society 25 Goh Byeong-Gwon — translated from Korean by Lee Seok-Won Humanities Across the Borders: A View from the Periphery 51 Helen Petrovsky Part 1: University Reform and Its Ironies: Globalization as Rhetoric (Giessen, Tokyo, Mérida, Paris, Shanghai) Academic Capitalism: Toward a Global Free Trade Zone 61 in University Services? Helmut Dubiel — translated from German by Eric Savoth Contents viii T R A C E S : 5 The Oxymoron of Higher Education: Neoliberal Restructuring 73 and the Incorporation of Japanese National Universities Iwasaki Minoru — translated from Japanese by Gavin Walker The Accountologist: An Emerging Form of Anthropological Life 89 in Mexican Universities Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz Of Forms and Re-forms in French Higher Education: 105 The École normale supérieure Laurent Dubreuil From Elitism to Populism: The “Industrial” Model and 119 Chinese Higher Education Lei QiLi — translated from Chinese by Ma Hongnan Part 2: University Reform and Bildung: Subjective Technologies, Language, and Colonial Legacies (Singapore, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul) Once Again, Reinventing Culture: Singapore and “Globalized” 135 Education C. J. W.-L. Wee Redefining “Liberal Education” in the Chinese University 153 Cao Li Articulation, Not Translation: Knowledge-Production in 165 an Age of Globalization Ding-tzann Lii On English as a Chinese Language: Implementing Globalization 177 Meaghan Morris The “Age” of the University in Asia 197 Ukai Satoshi Contents T R A C E S : 5 ix Neoliberal University Reform and the International Exchange 207 of Intellectuals Kang Nae-hui — translated from Korean by Kang Nae-hui and Lee Seok-Won Part 3: Thought and Resistance (New York, Boulder, Cambridge, Ithaca, Aberdeen) The University Without Wall: Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, 229 Israel Studies Gil Anidjar How Many Ward Churchills: Organizing Against Racism, 253 Empire, and the Neoconservative Assault on the University Daniel Won-gu Kim Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons 263 Andrew Jewett The Discourse of the University: Modern and Postmodern 279 Eric Cheyfitz Faculty Governance in the “University of Excellence”: Comments 295 Risa Lieberwitz The Conditions of Theory 299 Alberto Moreiras Part 4: The University and the Emancipatory Project: Limits and Possibilities (Paris, Ithaca, Providence, Mérida, Seoul) Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers 317 Yann Moulier Boutang — translated from French by Philippe Bonin Cognitive Capitalism and Its Discontents 331 Dominick LaCapra Contents x T R A C E S : 5 Comment on Yann Moulier Boutang’s “Cognitive Capitalism and 337 Education: New Frontiers” Naoki Sakai Imagined Networks: Digital Media, Race, and the University 341 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Very Much a Midnight Child: Software and the Translation of 355 Times at the University Gabriela Vargas-Cetina How an “Intellectual Commune” Organizes Movement: 371 A Brief Report on the Experiment “Research Space Suyu+Nomo” Ko Mi-Sook — translated from Korean by Lee Seok-Won Traces Editors Recommend ..... The Edu-Factory Machine: 385 Transnational Politics and Translational Institutions www.edu-factory.org Submission Guidelines 387 Traces Publishers 389 ...