The unseen university: a schizocartography of the Redbrick University campus

摘要: This thesis examines the tensions between discourse of Higher Education (HE) in Britain and how university is physically manifest. Using Bill Readings’s concept of “excellence” from The University Ruins (1996), it critiques corporate oriented contemporary an attempt to challenge its neoliberal rhetoric. narratives processes that support corporatised – whether they appear form relationship with industry, performative measures applied teaching or situating student as consumer will be examined by using Leeds campus. Using archived documents, historical information psychogeographical methodology, a poststructuralist analysis provided Redbrick campus based on origins Civic model HE. As well including spatial theorists field urban theory postmodern geography, main poststructuralist thrust Felix Guattari schizoanalysis he carried out institution psychiatry his work molecular revolutions. methodology include walking theories about practices, which Situationist International (1957-1972). The outcome project appears takes semiology representations. offers supplementary social history campus critique development. It provides view other typical one, demonstrating can place where people conventional routes express their desire creative response space. schizocartography reveals hidden suggests there are minoritorian politics operation dominant discourses spatially.