ANTI-UNIVERSITY 1968; 2015 – ongoing

The Antiuniversity was a London project of the late 1960s. It included figures such as C.L.R James, Stokely Carmichael, Juliet Mitchell, R.D. Laing and Stuart Hall. They sought to break the structures enforced by institutions.
The Antiuniversity wanted to allow people to meet each other without having to act out socially prescribed roles. This they believed would expose the terrible reality of modern life, in which nobody really knew anyone, and spark a revolution. Despite being short-lived and mostly shrouded in mystery, t he Antiuniversity continues to capture the imagination of anyone interested in alternative education, self- organisation, non-hierarchical structures and radicalism.
– possibly Anti-University 2015 (slight redactions)

The ANTI-U NOW project is “A collaborative autonomous education experiment. Teaching and learning as direct action.
An ongoing programme of radical education & an annual festival. Antiuniversity Now is a collaborative experiment to revisit and reimagine the 1968 Antiuniversity of London in an ongoing programme of of free and inclusive self-organised radical education events. It was set up to challenge academic and class hierarchy and the exclusivity of the expensive degree through an open invitation to teach and learn any subject, in any form, anywhere.”
– @antiuniversity

In London in the ‘60s, raising the intellectual proletariat rabble, was Alex Trocchi, novelist and Situationist. He aimed for an “invisible insurrection of a million minds” – As he wrote in sigma, “Now and in the future our centre is everywhere, our circumference nowhere. No one is in control. No one is excluded.… The conference begins now and goes on indefinitely. We are particularly anxious to have your participation soon, as soon as possible.”

LINKS

The Antiuniversity of London - an Introduction to Deinstitutionalisation
https://antihistory.org/deinsti

Monoskop links for Antiuniversity of London
https://monoskop.org/Antiuniversity_of_London

Antiuniversity Now
https://www.facebook.com/antiuniversityofeastlondon/

Reference for Trocchi: "sigma: A Tactical Blueprint" by Alexander Trocchi (1963?)
http://www.notbored.org/sigma.html