#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I have an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan for a monograph with the title The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University. It builds on writing here, and has the following aims. The book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of…
It is also popularly believed to be possible to “gaslight” a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting [her] own behavior to [her] as symptomatic of serious mental illness. While “gaslighting” itself may be a mythical crime, there is no…
Jehu has it. Communists have to decide how they see the next few years unfolding: Are we simply against Trump or the system that made Trump possible as well. The Democrats, who control the movement at present, want to limit…
I have a chapter in an edited collection called Negotiating Neoliberalism: Developing Alternative Educational Visions. The Sense Publishers website contains previews of the first two chapters. My chapter is entitled: Against Academic Labour and the Dehumanisation of Educational Possibility. The…
ONE. Universities as tools of economic progress and social mobility. The HE Bill reaching the Lords has catalysed a fresh discussion around ideas, first, of the University itself, and second, of academic freedom. These are the perceived form/purpose and content…
You are warmly invited to the next DMU IEF (Institute for Education Futures) Research Seminar Title: Immanence in learning Researcher: Jason Eyre Date: 18th January 2017, 4.00 – 5.00pm Location: Hawthorn Building, Room 0.07 Immanence in learning This paper represents…
With Joss Winn, I’m presenting at the Co-operative Education and Research Conference 2017. The abstract is presented below. Higher education in the UK is in crisis. The idea of the public university is under assault, and both the future of the…
I have been asked to speak at the Brookes Learning Teaching Conference 2017. I love this kind of invite, which enables a testing of ideas and a lot of listening to the practices, activities and hopes of others. My abstract is detailed below.…
<for some to succeed, some have to fail> The government is trying to create a market in the education system. This … is the right track for reform, but at the moment there’s a risk that we’re building in the…
The reflection in the water showed an iron man still trying to salute People from a time when he was everything he’s supposed to be Everything means nothing to me Everything means nothing to me Elliott Smith. 2000. Everything means…