Inside the Teaching Machine: Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University

An incisive critique of the corporatized university, tracing the entanglement of academic missions with economic, political, and cultural systems.

Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that unevenly combines corporate, state, and civil ...