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“the borderless university” (Middlehurst 2001; Erdinc 2002). Such ideas either are explicitly criti-
cal of the contemporary character of universities (“the edgeless university”) or are tacitly critical of
universities (“the virtual university” and “the borderless university”). All are urging the university
to embrace modern technologies fully and become much more uid in the forms of their knowledge
generation and communicative processes. But such ideas are prone to a kind of superciality, being
concerned with the manifest form of the university.
All of these ideas that focus on the supercial forms of the university, whether endorsing or are
offered in a more critical vein, are ideological, serving in ...