Wendy Brown

Sep 13, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Wendy Brown |William Davies

There​ are two broad narratives about what has happened to universities in the English-speaking world over the past forty years. They are very different from each other, yet both have some plausibility. The first runs roughly as follows. The rise of the New Right in the 1980s introduced a policy agenda for universities aimed at injecting enterprise and competition into a sector that had previously seen itself as somewhat insulated from the market.

May 24, 2023 | chronicle.com | Wendy Brown

In 1917 and 1919, at the invitation of University of Munich students, Max Weber delivered two public lectures, “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation.” Why read these lectures today? What do they offer for navigating our own contemporary predicaments in knowledge and politics? Weber was a dark thinker. This was not only a matter of his temperament or times.