This interlude addresses the problem of academic activism and militancy in terms of political philosophy. It refers to the tension between constituent and constituted power to address the problem of co-optation of desires born out of the student and academic struggles. Counter-subjectivity born within the struggles is introduced as a fragile subject position in danger of integration into the institutional shell of the university and, thus, deactivated. Hence, this chapter connects the problem of counter-subjectivity with the constituent power and asks how the latter can be made more pertinent. To address this question, the interlude draws on Antonio Negri’s account of constituent power and the lessons from the struggles waged in May 1968. This chapter argues that in order to make counter-subjectivity persistent, the institutional shell of the university has to express the common beyond its subjection to capitalist valorisation.