Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers how it might be possible to challenge universities to move towards the postdigital. It explores learning as a process of assembling, gathering and reassembling, suggesting it needs to be seen as more than just a series of dislocated events, such as lectures, modules and fieldwork experiences. The book examines the development of transformative technologies and discusses what might constitute transformative technologies in a digital age, at a time when there is much debate about these. It unpack the consequences of neoliberalism and the capitalist university system, suggesting what it might mean to be a changing university in and for the postdigital age. The book considers the practical outworking of postdigital learning that combines hope, moral responsibility and politics with a critical edge, and then suggests seven fluid pillars for a changing postdigital university.