Education network pirates, corporate control and the inverted panopticon: about the unfulfilled pandemic promise

Abstract

There are two issues in the article. The first concerns the educational dimension of the pandemic in social spaces. The second issue is about the possibility that the pandemy opens up for academic education. I believe that the pandemic crisis could have provided a progressive lessons and an impetus for a pro-democratic change, both in society and in institutionalized education. However, this lesson has not been learnt, and the pandemic itself has been used to intensify authoritarian tendencies in the womb of the (post)neoliberal world.