The research university’s mediating role has been dismantled under late capitalism.

Evidence

The country whose economic might and imperial extraction have fueled global carbonization staggers from domestic delegitimation, corruption, fascism, and utter abandon of the elementary offices of government—and many other governments follow in its suit. The crucible of ideas perpetuating this political order, the world-class research university, sometimes fostered its elucidative critique, along with humanistic flourishing, civic literacy, and paths to dignified labor and upward mobility—but now finds itself stripped for parts. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 34

Categorization

• XREF: The university-stripped-for-parts point connects directly to her Antitheory chapter and to the reader’s own fight about the humanities under siege — her defense of mediated knowledge production depends on this institutional claim. — connects to: The university has lost all social function and cultural purpose. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 490