Women and transgression in the halls of academe

Abstract

The controlling strategies of neo-liberalism, designed to constitute academics as economic units supporting the designs of government, are contrasted here with the creative and transgressive elements of a more Deleuzian approach to writing that opens things up, that brings thought to life, that makes the familiar, predictable order tremble. The article suggests that neo-liberalism can never fully capture the creative and joyful subject that it thinks it is creating and controlling. The article is disruptive of the neo-liberal order - and a refusal of it. It plays with multiple layers of meaning making, using metaphor, images and imagined sounds from opera, a story from collective biography, ..