... of the (public) university through a lopsided double-pronged strategy: to work and struggle at once within and against the university as well as outside and beyond the university (where the outside and the beyond consist of alternative institutions for the production at once of common knowledge...

... economy, cultural heritage, affective attachments to property, the Anthropocene or Capitalocene, the legacy of communism, and the politics of institution building. Peter Hitchcock and Christian P. Haines Theses on the Commons The theses below are not meant as final words, even as they aspire to have more...

... political and social potentiality of the commons. At its base, the com- mons implies commoning: the ongoing activity of inventing, instituting, governing, and sustaining a life in common, with an eye toward the withering of states and the practical negation of capitalism.1 At the same time the question...

..., in this project and others, makes on collective action and common pooling as such, nor does such a commentary part from the laudable research on problems of scale, heterogeneity of institutions, and the environment. Perhaps, however, we might wonder further on the Ostrom effect as a nonsocialist commoning...

... of institutional self-government. Rather, the specific discussion of energy in relation to the common is meant to accomplish two things. First, it underscores the problematic lack of attention to energy in existing dis- cussions of the common and indeed, in most elaborations or specula- tions of the political...

...Crystal Bartolovich; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock Different as they are, Fredric Jameson’s “universal army” and Bruno Latour’s “Theater of Negotiations” both implicitly address the failure of a sufficiently large self-organized “common force” (à la Leslie Marmon Silko) to arise and repair...

... Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. Schoenbach, Lisi. “A Jamesian State: The American Scene and ‘The Working of Democratic Institutions The Henry James Review 30.1 (Winter 2009). Szalay, Michael. New Deal Modernism: American...

... uprisings against the various gatekeeping institutions presiding over . . . common life, [are defined by] a new brand of identity-themed insurgence, one that might prove more sinister and abiding than the more familiar cultural conflict of the left and right flanks of our politics.” The universities, once...

... sociolinguistic groups (four, if Spanish were included), each in its place with no apparent cognizance of the others, no visible public route toward translingualism, no obvious structure for commonality. On the other, it is a prescriptive model, with the inflection falling not on a refusal of exchange...

... “ragged edges,” for—as the MLA convention reminds us—no aggregation of data or appeals to common principles can normalize the diversity of universities and colleges (8). Yet as sensitive as Renker is to institutional differences, she also pursues a more encompassing narrative that takes...

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

... Fuchs could be fired by the politically appointed Board of Trustees. Even so, given the widespread feeling among many in the UF community of institutional betrayal over the lack of COVID safety measures, the stakes seemed to be sufficiently high for Fuchs to consider precipitating just such a showdown...

... the scholar is housed in a US institution? How can one square the pre-1960s precursors and autoch­ thonous sources of Latin American cultural studies with the specific genealogies of Birmingham School and Frankfurt School influences in the region? What exactly should be the methods, objects...

... percent of institutions produced 71 86 percent of 19,000 North American tenure-stream faculty in history, computer science, and business and that institutional prestige plays an enormous role in shaping faculty hiring across academe. Faculty hiring, the authors conclude, follows a common and steeply...

... and Terry Eagleton developed in the 1970s: could one take that kind of Marxist literary criticism and bring it to the analysis of popular literature? I was involved in the MLG’s first summer institute in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in the summer of 1977, which was taught...

... publication in 1996, the book which people in literary and cultural studies typically cite when they want to discuss the university as an institution is Bill Readings's The University in Ruins. It would be all to the good, if Christopher Newfield's Ivy and Industry were to replace it in this role...

... rationalization of faculty careers, and so forth. I’ve already suggested that public institutions in the United States should treat faculty salaries like the civil service or military pay grades—winning some startled coverage in the mainstream press, though there are plenty of real-world precedents...

...Jennifer Ruth © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Work Cited Robbins Bruce . Review of Amanda Anderson, The Way We Argue Now . Criticism 48 . 2 ( 2007 ). Jennifer Ruth A Downwardly-Mobile Professor Reads Bruce Robbins’ Upward Mobility and the Common Good...

... white institutional structures as a categorical problem that spreads across all disciplines by identifying four formative aspects of the university: understanding the university as an institution, its relationship with society and literature, and the canon-building discourses that fuel a market demand...

... faculty over age 60 were twice as common as faculty under age 35. Moreover, as Schuster and Finkelstein observe, “One’s position in the institutional prestige hierarchy has tended to mirror quite faithfully the socioeconomic background of one’s family...