ABSTRACT

This paper takes J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid” as a point of departure in thinking about audits in universities. Using the psychoanalytic framing of apartheid that Coetzee puts in place, audit is likened here to a form of obsessional neurosis. If this is indeed a plausible diagnosis of audits – and this should remain a question for deliberation – then a set of questions emerges for post-apartheid universities, which the paper seeks to develop. By what scenes from the past are audits haunted? What memory traces do audits reactivate? What phantoms do audits seek to exorcise? Can we speak of the demons by which auditing is possessed? And what sort of working through the past would this call for?

摘要

本文以 JM Coetzee 的“种族隔离思想”作为思考大学审计的出发点。使用 Coetzee 提出的种族隔离的精神分析框架，审计在这里被比作一种强迫性神经症。如果这确实是对审计的合理诊断——并且这应该仍然是一个有待审议的问题——那么就会出现一系列针对后种族隔离时代大学的问题，本文试图提出这些问题。过去的哪些场景让审计如影随形？审计会重新激活哪些记忆痕迹？审计试图驱除哪些幽灵？我们能谈谈控制审计的恶魔吗？这需要对过去进行什么样的工作？