Retroductive explanation

Identifying the relevant social, political, fantasmatic logics

identify a domain of objects and practices in need of analysis and critique, before then providing a genealogical accounting that explains their political and ideological emergence.

This involves the task of retroductively identifying the assemblage of social logics that are currently being installed at UK universitites

  • logic of competition (actors as rivals)
  • logic of atomisation (independent entities, isolated)
  • logic of hierarchy (top down mode of governance)
  • logic of instrumentalization (exchange over use value)

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