An Ontological Transition in Higher Education:Space,Power and Technology
The paper provides an overview of geopolitical developments and tensions and the impact in social space making and relations of power in universities and science.Innovations in space making in higher education combine pre-given materiality with the ideas and interpretations of agents,and the so-cial practices they develop,some of which become part of the ongoing materiality of the sector.One ex-ample of global space making is the Academic Ranking of World Universities(the'Shanghai Rank-ing'),an early example of China'going out'in higher education so as to transform global university relations.Global evolution in universities and science has passed through three historical layers,all of which enter into current practice:(1)the beginnings of post-coloniality and the 1945 UN Charter and its sovereign international order;(2)from 1990 onwards the strengthening of neo-coloniality in Pax A-mericana and U.S.—led processes of accelerated globalisation;(3)in the last 15 years the partial frag-mentation of the neo-colonial order amid growing multi-polarity and the rise of China.The paper ex-pands on present issues and tensions,including the advent of AI in education and research(which should be the subject of international cooperation but is not),and the U.S.—driven closure of relations with China in science and technology.It argues that the decoupling strategy is ill conceived,and while it has been disruptive it is unlikely to achieve its goals.Despite the geopolitics universities need to find ways of nurturing and developing a cooperative global space on the basis of mutual respect.
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