My presentation at the DMU-hosted seminar [held on 8 December 2011] on THE ASSAULT ON UNIVERSITIES: Privatisation, Secrecy and the Future of Higher Education.

9. “ student debt, in its prevalence and amounts, constitutes a pedagogy, unlike the humanistic lesson that the university traditionally proclaims, of privatization and the market.” Jeffrey J. Williams, “Tactics against Debt”: http://bit.ly/fQvP8N

10. New system transfers the cost of HE from the taxpayer to graduates themselves Dearden et al. (2010) http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5354

16. our liberal aim is “to democratise capitalism, to extend democratic control to the economy by means of media pressure, parliamentary inquiries, harsher laws, honest police investigations and so on.” Is it enough that “the institutional set-up of the (bourgeois) democratic state is never questioned”? Žižek, S. 2011. Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks. London Review of Books , 33, no. 2: 9-10 http://bit.ly/dQjnKV

21. the logic of 'security' is the logic of an anti-politics in which the state uses 'security' to marginalize all else, most notably the constructive conflicts, the debates and discussions that animate political life, suppressing all before it and dominating political discourse in an entirely reactionary way. Neocleous, M. (2007). Security, Liberty and the Myth of Balance: Towards a Critique of Security Politics. Contemporary Political Theory 6, 131–149. http://bit.ly/gariqH

24. What is to be done? Refuse, negate, push back. Or suffer coercion.

30. and this is important because the University has been subsumed within the circuit of capital, so that it has become emblematic of capitalist social relations, driven by the abstracted power of money

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