Warping on knowledge commoditization at university —Paul Ricœur, Jacques Derrida, Boaventura de Sousa Santos

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.71

Jorge Eliécer Martínez Posada
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-6872
jmartinezp2@gmail.com
Universidad de La Salle, Colombia

Constanza Abadía García
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0304-7835
constanza.abadia@unad.edu.co
Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), Colombia

Leonardo Montenegro
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-7676
l.montenegro@revistatabularasa.org
Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Abstract:

This paper employs the metaphor of warping in order to highlight the constituent elements of university, which Ricœur, Derrida and De Sousa Santos observed. Each of them separately brings in valuable contributions, which taken as a whole enables us to understand university in their current circumstances. Last, this paper returns to some ideas on university as producing producers in today’s higher education’s commoditization, and advances a potential way of escape by becoming a Child so as to face the current neoliberalist measurement rationale.

Keywords: university, commoditization, subjectivity, biopolitics.