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Academic Work and Alienation in the Automatic University: A Marxian Critical Essay Fahrizal Fahrizal; Dian Senly Andika; Agung Winarno; Subagyo Subagyo
Formosa Journal of Applied Sciences Vol. 4 No. 12 (2025): December 2025
Publisher : PT FORMOSA CENDEKIA GLOBAL

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.55927/fjas.v4i12.485

Abstract

This article examines contemporary academic work through a Marxian analysis of alienation in the context of digital capitalism and artificial intelligence (AI). The study aims to conceptualise how AI systems and platform infrastructures intensify existing forms of alienated labour and reshape higher education into what is described as the automatic university. Using a conceptual and critical methodology, the analysis synthesises key contributions from Marxian theory, critical political economy, and scholarship on digital labour and AI in education. The findings show that academic work is increasingly organised through automated governance that restructures time, evaluation, and judgement, leading to the dehumanisation of educational practices. The article concludes that educational resistance must be understood as a collective and institutional project, and that an ethics of academic work requires reclaiming judgement, authorship, and epistemic responsibility within increasingly automated universities.