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Educational co-production in the age of digital reason: A review of the digital university: A dialogue and manifesto

The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto, by Michael A. Peters and Petar Jandric, arrives at a moment of sociotechnical transition associated with global cybernetic capitalism. We live a moment of speed, where collective capacities for critical reflection appear stunted by the sheer velocity of change, wrought by emerging synergies between artificial intelligence, human connectivity, and conflicts over information, truth, and power. In this insightful and timely book, Peters and Jandric provide a set of ethical principles and intellectual signposts for making sense of this condition. Moreover, they point toward modes of education and collective intelligence capable of generating alternative forms of digital co-production and sociotechnical life. Peters and Jandric employ ‘digital reason’ and ‘digital university’ as conceptual anchors to ground their project. Digital reason is a periodizing term meant to capture a diverse pattern of intersecting trends that are transforming economy, sociality, politics, and the university. Digital reason is a Kantian-style formation, which Peters and Jandric characterize as encompassing a ‘general basis for understanding the nature of contemporary human cultural evolution’ as it unfolds in relation to education and new technology (p. 4). Peters and Jandric argue that the epoch of digital reason is ultimately a fraught and contradictory historical formation, one that the university and educational processes more broadly must reflexively attend. They elaborate: