Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for universities in Ireland, the UK, the US, Japan and Hong Kong. He has published widely in education, literary studies and philosophy.

• 1. Introduction2. Academic Barbarism: Practice and Transmission3. Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality4. Academic Barbarism and the Literature of Concealment: Roberto Bolaño and W. G. Sebald5. Aaron Swartz, New Technologies and The Myth of Open Access6. Academic Barbarism and the Asian University: The Case of Hong Kong7. Conclusion