Le capital scientifique en LMD : parcours d’un préconstruit

Abstract

The university reform known as the BMD (Bachelor-Master-Doctorate) system has turned science into capital with cumulative and transferable credits. This paper is informed by the theoretical perspective of Bakhtin’s dialogism and views this as a pre-built, an earlier word taken up in discourses as self-evident, even though its source is unknown. Where is this pre-built from? This article argues that the capitalist pre-built originates in certain instances of global power. To reveal its path and understand its motivations, the article analyses a group of texts including a pedagogical regulation and the Declarations of Libreville and Bologna.