Revolt is a vital and transformative process of evolution and re-negotiation, Kristeva says, and, in the face of global/local, political, worldly and ecological crises, it is critical. This paper utilises the notion of revolt as an ongoing imperative to re-imagine activism through a human–posthuman framing. It conceptualises the university as a living, throbbing assemblage of beings, policies and practices that are closely and often indiscernibly entangled. In this assemblage COVID-19 is posited as an illustration of human and more-than-human life and uncertainty to provoke re-readings and reorientations towards policies and practices. Using revolt to refocus activisms in the university, the paper argues, blurs not only the human and nonhuman but also the policy–practice boundaries.

克里斯蒂娃说，反抗是进化和重新谈判的重要而变革性的过程，面对全球/地方，政治，世界和生态危机，反抗是至关重要的。本文利用反叛的概念作为通过人与人之间的构架来重新构想行动主义的一项当务之急。它把大学概念化为一种生活、,不休的生物，政策和实践的集合，这些生物紧密地，常常被不可思议地纠缠在一起。在本次会议中，COVID-19被视为人类和非人类生活以及不确定性的例证，以激发人们对政策和实践的重新解读和重新定位。该论文认为，利用起义来重新聚焦大学中的行动主义，不仅模糊了人类和非人类，而且也模糊了政策实践的界限。