Interesting proposal. some comments to the discussion
Concerning Brett comment about the concept of university as a factory:
I used the concept of factory to describe university not because i believe
is the new site of struggle but only to underline the fact that
universities have become sites not for the production of knowledge but
sites for the production of graduated students (they have become a
product).
so universities are companies that manifacture a product: graduates. And
now we have a crisis of overproduction of this new product, it’s called
precarity (the word is already used in japan and united states, so i wont
be preoccupied of the latin root).

Concerning the comment about countercartography:
I would be careful to use the word “counter”. The crisis offers us an
opportunity to show the emperor new clothes and the fact of using the word
counter, puts you in a kind of a ghetto. We are here, with our body and
minds, with a brand new sexy interpretation of what we see.

I would focus the mapping on simple things: comparing levels of causal work
and number of graduates (in the faculties with the biggest number of
students) in big cities, in europe and united states, any kind of
university (private or public).

It’d prefer to start with small objectives, producing a fast result and
then enlarge the research, instead of starting with too high objectives and
not finishing within 6 months.