On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses

This paper argues that the university is changing in the pandemic but it is the broader contexts of the university and specifically neoliberal politics that originated the change. Â It then identified several situations that upon witnessing undermine the neoliberal systems of legitimation.

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Fast Capitalism
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2026-01-22
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https://doi.org/10.32855/1930-014x.1237
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Digital Education and Society
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On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses

Jeremy Hunsinger
Fast Capitalism
Digital Education and Society
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On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses

Jeremy Hunsinger
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Abstract

This paper argues that the university is changing in the pandemic but it is the broader contexts of the university and specifically neoliberal politics that originated the change. Â It then identified several situations that upon witnessing undermine the neoliberal systems of legitimation.

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