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Introduction

This issue features our first installment of a two-part series on the political economy of knowledge production (guest edited by Maria Cernat), which we launch with an interview with the famed Marxist economist, Richard D. Wolff. Here we are excited to present peer-reviewed research articles by Clyde W. Barrow ("What Comes After the Critique of the Corporate University? Toward a Syndicalist University") and Chad Lavin ("The Symbolic Capital of the Neoliberal University"), as well as commentaries by Adalberto Fernandes ("The Drivers of Academic Novelty in Digital Capitalism: Job Insecurity, Mental Illness and Time Poverty") and Khang Lê ("Hypocritical Management Studies"). As a commentary on the current power dynamics of knowledge-production, Albena Azmanova and Enzo Rossi issue a call for a broad united front against the rise of "neo-McCarythyism" with specific reference to the recent suspension of Jodi Dean in response to her writing on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Finally, we are delighted to feature the work of a previous contributor to Emancipations, Larry Alan Busk, this time writing with Elizabeth Portella ("The Contradiction between Use-Value and Exchange-Value: Ecology, Imperialism, and the Telos of Production"). We hope you enjoy the issue and watch this space for the second installment of our series on the political economy of knowledge production.