CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITICISM OF BRAZILIAN ACADEMIC CAPITALISM AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE RAW MATERIALS IN THE CRISIS SCENARIO

The present research seeks to analyze the logic of Brazilian academic capitalism that conditions a process of commodifying the production of knowledge, as well as prioritizing the offer of training courses for liberal professionals. This process is characterized as raw material knowledge contributing to the creation of a type of World Class University. Concerning the methodological procedures of the research, it was decided to develop a bibliographical and documental research based on the critical-dialectical epistemology. Content analysis was used in the treatment of data. Thus, the text is systematized in three parts: it analyzes the concept of crisis and how the capitalist economy was permeated by tensions throughout the year.