on silence
I read this by Kate Bowles about speaking words that are true, necessary and kind. And I read this by Kate Bowles about how that social media joke isn’t funny anymore. Those two posts led to me to ask the…
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on the triple crunch and the secular crisis of the University
I presented yesterday at the Plymouth University Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory annual conference. I spoke about the impact on higher education of climate change and liquid fuel availability, as symptoms of the secular crisis of capitalism. These are the…
higher education and the triple crunch
I’m presenting at the Plymouth University Pedagogic Research conference on Wednesday, about higher education and the triple crunch. There are some notes on the University and the secular crisis [crunch 1]. There are some notes on climate change and liquid fuel…
on the University as anxiety machine
I would be your king But you want to be free Confusion and art I’m nothing but heart (as we stumble to the shore… as we walk into the night …. this before can’t say it anymore…) Low. 2011. Nothing…
on academic labour and performance anxiety
ONE. The bleeding of our souls. There is no escape from the living death of capitalist work (Dinerstein and Neary). This leads Cederström and Fleming to argue that our whole existence bleeds our souls in the name of value.…
Friction, co-operation and technology in the neoliberal university
I’m presenting at “Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology and resistance“ in May. My abstract is noted below. In the Grundrisse, Marx argued that the circulation of productive capital was “a process of transformation, a qualitative process of value”. As capitalists…
on academic labour and plutonomy
In discussing academic labour, Chomsky made the interesting point that: The university is probably the social institution in our society that comes closest to democratic worker control. Within a department, for example, it’s pretty normal for at least the tenured…
Call for contributions to a book on ‘Mass Intellectuality: The democratisation of higher education’
Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Joss Winn and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of their being critical responses to ‘intellectual leadership’ in mainstream…
Presentations on academic alienation, academic labour and academic activism
I have a number of presentations coming up that focus upon academic alienation, academic labour and academic activism. The connection between alienation and work, revealed in normative responses to the triple crunch of climate change, peak oil and austerity, leads…
PhD Studentship: A critical evaluation of continuing professional development strategies for digital literacy in UK compulsory education
Starting October 2014, and available to suitably qualified UK or EU students. Closing date for applications: Friday March 21st 2014. Background In the last 18 months I’ve been working with Josie Fraser and Lucy Atkins on a co-operative project between…