Matvey Agranovskiy is a writer and a researcher. He works on French and Russian 20th-century thought, with a focus on the problems of finitude and language.
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Double-Edged Sword: Neoliberalism and the Politics of American Education
This essay situates the Trump administration’s 2025 assault on academia within a longer trajectory of American capitalism’s influence on higher education, beginning with the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and intensified under Reagan’s neoliberal program. Drawing on Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics and the Chicago School’s theory of human capital, alongside Michel Feher’s account of financialized capitalism,… Read More »