The Creative University -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: The Creative University -- FREEDOM, OPENNESS AND CREATIVITY IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY -- CREATIVITY AS THE NEW DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE CHANGING GEO-POLITICS OF CREATIVITY: Rise of the Post-Confucian University -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POST-CONFUCIAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS -- Student Participation and Its Financing -- Research Science -- World-Class Universities -- DYNAMICS OF THE POST-CONFUCIAN MODEL -- Economic Growth -- The East Asian state -- Confucian Education at Home -- Modernization from Dutside and In -- Limits of the Post-Confucian Model? -- Research Quality -- University Autonomy and Academic Freedom -- Japan and Vietnam -- Implications for Theorization -- Comparative Education -- The Term 'Post-Confucian Model' -- Social Theory -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION -- BEAUTIFUL MINDS AND UGLY BUILDINGS: Object Creation, Digital Production, and the Research University-Reflections on the Aesthetic Ecology of the Mind -- THE OBJECT WORLD -- THE ASPHYXIATION OF THE MIND -- THE UGLY UNIVERSITY AND THE AESTHETIC ECOLOGY OF THE MIND -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AFFLIATION -- THINKING THROUGH THE HUMANITIES TO THE CREATIVE UNIVERSITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HUMANITIES NOW/TO-COME -- THE SEMIOSPHERE -- CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND THE POSTMODERN UNIVERSITY -- THE INTELLECTUAL COMMONS, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, FICTION -- INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE -- FICTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION -- REFLECTING ON A COMPLEX TERRAIN: Art and Text as Generative Praxis -- INTRODUCTION: PRAXIS AS CREATIVE ACTION -- CRITICAL APPROACHES -- SITES AND CONDITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE -- SPEAKING POSITION -- RELATIONS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE -- GENERATION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE -- CRAFTING CREATIVE PROJECTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION.

THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIC PROFESSION IN TRANSITION: An Alternative Futures Interpretation -- INTRODUCTION -- FUTURES METHODOLOGY -- CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS -- THE RESEARCH AND TEACHING BALANCE -- CASUAL CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT -- CAREER PLANS -- NET MIGRATION -- WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD -- RESPONDING TO THE 12 PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE ACADEMIC WORKFORCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION -- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- NOTES -- WAGERS WITHIN THE IMAGE: Rise of Visuality, Transformation of Labour, Aesthetic Regimes -- THE RISE OF VISUALITY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE COMMODITY, LABOUR, AND THE FORM OF VALUE -- WITHIN THE IMAGE -- FROM THE WAGE TO THE WAGER -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION -- LESSONS OF SUBVERSION: Ethics and Creativity in Neoliberal Academia -- PARALLEL POLIS -- WHO IS PATOČKA -- THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY -- DISTURBING THE PEACE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- AFFLIATION -- EMPATHY AND THE CREATIVE UNIVERSITY: Finding Hope in Troubled Times -- THE NEW EMPATHY: HUMAN/ANIMAL NATURE AND ITS POSSIBILITIES -- RETHINKING DESCARTES AND DARWIN -- MIRROR NEURONS AND EMPATHY -- EMPATHY IN THE LIVES OF (NON-HUMAN) ANIMALS -- THE NEW EMPATHY: CREATING PATHWAYS TO HOPE -- CONCLUSION: EDUCATION, EMPATHY AND THE POLITICS OF HOPE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AFFLIATION -- OPENNESS, CLOSURE AND CREATIVITY: Knowledge Production in 21st Century Universities -- KNOWLEDGE, PERFORMATIVITY AND RESEARCH: A CASE STUDY -- A NEW SCIENTISM? OUTPUTS, RANKINGS AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL CLOSURE -- LIMITS TO OPENNESS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- AFFLIATION -- THIRD-GENERATION CREATIVITY: Unfolding a Social-Ecological Imagination -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY DIMENSIONS OF THIRD-GENERATION CREATIVITY -- A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW -- COSMOPOLITANISM -- A CAPABILITY APPROACH.

ETHICS -- MULTIMODALITY -- EMBODIED, ENACTED AND EMERGENT PEDAGOGY -- UNFOLDING A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL IMAGINATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- IMAGINING THE CREATIVE UNIVERSITY: Dispositives of Creation, Strategies of Innovation, Politics of Reality -- DISCOURSE ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES -- CREATION IN A DISCOURSE ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Analysis of the Dispositives of Power -- Images as Representations of Dispositives of Power -- GENEALOGY OF THE DISPOSITIVES OF CREATION -- Dispositive of "Creation as Transcendence" -- Dispositive of "Creation as Act" -- Dispositive of "Man as Creator" -- Dispositive of "Collective Creation" -- From "Human Creator" to "Entrepreneurial Self": Strategy of Freedom and Guidance -- From Creation As "Act" to Experts, Evidence and Prognosis: Strategies of Calculation and Security -- Systemic Transformation as Strategy of Future by Design -- Aesthetic Transformation and Ethical Creativity: Strategy of Transcendence of the Subject -- Dispositives of Creation and strategies of innovation -- Reality Politics: "Creative University" as Contested Epistemic Terrain -- Heterotopias of the Creative University -- REFERENCES.