In an overcrowded train, somewhere between two capital cities, a woman sits on the floor. Around her, suitcases roll by, passengers get on and off, the clatter of the tracks is constant. On her lap: a stack of student papers she is carefully grading. No time to rest. No time for a permanent workspace. No time for research. This woman is not a student with a side job. She is a lecturer with a PhD, holding two part-time positions—at two universities hundreds of kilometers apart. She commutes several times a week because neither institution can offer her a full position. Her life plays out between lecture halls and train carriages. The floor of the train is her office. This is no isolated case. It is a symbol of an academic world that no longer lives in libraries and laboratories, but in timetables, schedules, and production logics. The University as Factory – More Than Just Mass Production When people talk about the “university as a factory” today, they often think of overcrowded le...
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