The entrepreneurial online academy is supported by constructs such as disruption, agility, Design Thinking and digital transformation, further underpinned by techno-determinist belief in reductionist, ‘universal’ (as in white Western) design ‘solutions’. From a techno-determinist position there is no need to address systemic power disparities or colonialism – the presumption is that technology can find an answer for everything and everyone, apart from, of course, the so-called ‘wicked problems’ of poverty and inequality. Post-pandemic, neoliberal Design Thinking constructs risk becoming ever more entrenched within Higher Education, naturalised by the domination of STEM/STEAM agendas, with their racist assumptions of ‘universal’ values and needs. As Ansari points out, Design Thinking universalism is synonymous with “white, Eurocentric, settler logic”. This position paper presents a standpoint informed by the ongoing principles of Design Justice and a posthuman re-formulation of agency, eschewing universalist constructs of human knowledge, psychology or need