Krystian Szadkowski, is a senior researcher at Faculty of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He works at Scholarly Communication Research Group. Recently he published Capital in Higher Education. A Critique of the Political Economy of the Sector (Palgrave 2023) and together with Richard Hall and Inny Accioly, The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education (Palgrave 2023). He leads a multi-year research project on Origins and development of peripheral academic capitalism in Poland (1990-2021) funded by National Science Centre (Poland).Jakub Krzeski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University and a researcher with the Scholarly Communication Research Group. His work explores the social theory of quantification, critical theory, and political ontology, with a focus on how capitalism structures science and higher education. He is currently studying the historical emergence of the evaluative state in Poland and the impact of research evaluation systems on predatory publishing. His research has been published in Historical Materialism, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, among others.

• Acknowledgements.- Dedication.- Chapter 1. The Totality of Capital in Higher Education and the Integrity of Critique.- Chapter 2. Decrepitude of the Critique: Renewing or Casting Critique aside?.- Chapter 3. The Real Movement that Abolishes the Present State of Things. Marx (and Engels) on Critique.- Chapter 4. Ontological Foundations of Critique.- Chapter 5. Interlude 1: On Academic Robinson and his Preachers.- Chapter 6. ‘In’: Critique of the Political Economy of Higher Education.- Chapter 7. Interlude 2: Where to Hit?.- Chapter 8. ‘Against’: Workers’ Inquiry and Co-research.- Chapter 9. Interlude 3: Embedding Counter-Subjectivity within Militant University.- Chapter 10. ‘Beyond’: Higher Education and Practices of the Common.- Chapter 11. Coda: Critique as Commoning.- Index.

Krystian Szadkowski, is a senior researcher at Faculty of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He works at Scholarly Communication Research Group. Recently he published Capital in Higher Education. A Critique of the Political Economy of the Sector (Palgrave 2023) and together with Richard Hall and Inny Accioly, The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education (Palgrave 2023). He leads a multi-year research project on Origins and development of peripheral academic capitalism in Poland (1990-2021) funded by National Science Centre (Poland).Jakub Krzeski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University and a researcher with the Scholarly Communication Research Group. His work explores the social theory of quantification, critical theory, and political ontology, with a focus on how capitalism structures science and higher education. He is currently studying the historical emergence of the evaluative state in Poland and the impact of research evaluation systems on predatory publishing. His research has been published in Historical Materialism, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, among others.

• Acknowledgements.- Dedication.- Chapter 1. The Totality of Capital in Higher Education and the Integrity of Critique.- Chapter 2. Decrepitude of the Critique: Renewing or Casting Critique aside?.- Chapter 3. The Real Movement that Abolishes the Present State of Things. Marx (and Engels) on Critique.- Chapter 4. Ontological Foundations of Critique.- Chapter 5. Interlude 1: On Academic Robinson and his Preachers.- Chapter 6. ‘In’: Critique of the Political Economy of Higher Education.- Chapter 7. Interlude 2: Where to Hit?.- Chapter 8. ‘Against’: Workers’ Inquiry and Co-research.- Chapter 9. Interlude 3: Embedding Counter-Subjectivity within Militant University.- Chapter 10. ‘Beyond’: Higher Education and Practices of the Common.- Chapter 11. Coda: Critique as Commoning.- Index.