Not a Foreign Body

A University learning to be part of its town

A civic brochure that borrows immunology's idea of tolerance, the education by which a body learns to leave its own tissue alone, to set out the University's place in its town. It follows the School of Underlying Conditions' soil survey across the campus fence into neighbouring gardens, the School of Emergent Priorities' models of how the thymus screens self from stranger, and the University's studies of everyday misrecognition at the kerb, the market queue and the main street, carried by six published studies cited by title and DOI.

@misc{slop_lbqega,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Ylva Ogunbanjo},
  title        = {Not a Foreign Body: A University learning to be part of its town},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.lbqega},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-not-a-foreign-lbqega/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}