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Miscast Canons? The Future of Universities in an Era of Flexible Specialization

To understand the condition of universities and liberal education in the era of flexible specialization, it is necessary to consider how a rising new constellation of informational productive forces affects the creation, circulation and consumption of knowledge. The dislocations spreading off-campus, coming in the wake of the collapse of the Fordist social contracts between big business, big government and big labor as a result of neo-liberal reforms by administrations from Carter to Clinton, are crippling higher education with funding reductions, confusion over curricula, redefinitions of relevance, pushing and pulling over practicality. Before undertaking a populist discussion of the problems confronting...