Beautiful minds and ugly buildings
pp. 33-47
in: Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley (eds), The creative university, Berlin, Springer, 2013Abstract
Knowledge is a form of objectivation. It involves the positing of objects in the world. Viewed from this angle, the contemporary research university is an object producer. But how well does it do this? The paper reflects on the conditions under which intellectual object production occurs.