Culure Machine Vol. 25 is guest-edited by Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox. Full description of call, and details of how to submit, can be found at https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/.
Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers and information management systems, with spiraling costs across the sector as a whole. From virtual learning environments, digital attendance systems, human resources software, booking platforms, data repositories, and online teaching platforms to the basic provision of email and server space, much of the infrastructure of the contemporary marketised university is outsourced to big tech. […]
Initiated by the Critical Infrastructures & Image Politics research group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University, and Critical Media Lab, Basel Academy of Art and Design, this special issue aims to take stock of the challenges and possibilities here for University as Infrastructure. We welcome submissions that interrogate the university’s integration into platform logistics and economies of datafication, on responsive/resistive methods, tactics and other approaches, contributions by people recently made precarious and/or redundant, and contributions that acknowledge critical traditions that take alternative understandings and practices of education to be a key site of social struggle.