Malestar burocrático, violencia y adaptación en la universidad neoliberal

Abstract

This article aims to highlight some of the effects of bureaucratic transformations within academia, particularly on academic subjectivity. To this end, it analyses the ways in which administrative innovations have not only altered academic institutions but also the behaviours, attitudes, expectations, and self-perception of individuals connected to academic life in one way or another. Bureaucratic malaise is described as one of these effects, and the article examines how these changes respond to a logic of exploitation of bodies, disciplined through a repertoire of practices that, like software applications, require active participation.

Rather than providing a description of the current state of university bureaucracy, this work offers a reflection on the bureaucratic nature of universities today –its significance for the definition of the academic profession, its modes of productivity and violence, its multiple ambivalences, and the forms of adaptation it generates. Among them, bureaucratism deserves special attention.