The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory—known as 3CT—is a space for the critical discussion and reimagination of social, political, and cultural processes in the world today.
Principal Investigator(s): 3CT Fellows
From budget deficits to the reliance on adjunct labor, from anxieties about “woke” campus politics to worries about “cancel culture,” from the erosion of faculty governance to the empowerment of consultants and trustees, the university as an institution is being transformed.
The Corporate University
Principal Investigator(s): Adom Getachew, Daragh Grant, Ghenwa Hayek, Jennifer Pitts, David Scott, Lisa Wedeen
Using theoretical, historical, and multi-sited ethnographic approaches, this project considers questions of revolution, despair, political retrenchment, nostalgia, the politics of waiting, and temporality more generally.
Revolutionary Disappointment and Recalibration
