#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Two edited collections, “Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism” and “Marx and the Political Economy of the Media“, have just been published by Brill. With Bernd Stahl, I have a chapter in the latter called: Against Commodification: The University,…
I’m really excited to have become a Trustee for the Open Library of Humanities. Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards have been working tirelessly on developing financial/governance, technological, academic and social models for the OLH as an alternative, open access publishing…
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths Banquo, Act 1, Scene III, Macbeth. “Kettling is a police tactic to control crowds where officers surround a group of people on all sides. In…
Over at The Disorder of Things, Lee Jones has posted a response made by 80 academics to HEFCE’s Review of Quality Assessment. I have added my name to this, and I am grateful to Lee for his leadership and energies…
Tied up in disgrace/How can we keep a man so long/Waiting for a fate/Stripped of all our hearts/Never dreamed we would belong/In a world, a world that’s just gone wrong And if we try to stand alone/We’ll be playing with…
educational value-in-motion it is clear that universities must do more to demonstrate they add real and lasting value for all students. Now that we are asking young people to meet more of the costs of their degrees once they are…
A while back Andrew McGettigan ended a piece on Financialising the University with a call for action. It goes without saying that this process [negotiated independence for the elite or shedding charitable status the better to access private finance] and…
slower and more calculated/no chance of escape/now self-employed/concerned (but powerless)/an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)/ calm/fitter, healthier and more productive/a pig/in a cage/on antibiotics Radiohead. 1997. Fitter. Happier. ONE. Endings Endings are important. Fucked-up endings remain.…
There is a symposium being hosted by Coventry University UCU, on Friday 15 September 2015. The symposium is focused on the following two questions. Has the idea of Higher Education as a social good been replaced by the idea of…
I was asked two questions at Bishop Grosseteste University after I spoke on crisis and educational repair earlier today, which made me reflect on “what is to be done?” I interpreted these questions as follows. Given the crises of sociability that…