The Temporality of the Post-Pandemic University and the Contours of Democracy

Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas & Ben Whitburn This contribution may seem somewhat Orwellian, but please bear with us. Our intent is to work the ruins, as we will explain. Interested in the temporal schism caused to institutions of higher education as a consequence of the SARS COV-II global pandemic, we want to push towards democratic affordances that remain in our attempts to maintain education, and thereby knowledge exchange and development, on the course of inclusiveness. We think with Hannah Arendt to examine the contours of democracy as they are intensified in the ruins of the post-pandemic university whose bureaucratic procedures have been turned up a notch, threatening to exclude those who are unable to comply.