On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses
Abstract
This paper argues that the university is changing in the pandemic but it is the broader contexts of the university and specifically neoliberal politics that originated the change. Â It then identified several situations that upon witnessing undermine the neoliberal systems of legitimation.References
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