#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I’ve just submitted this for the Higher Education Academy’s 2014 conference. It’s not contentious to me. But let’s see if it gets accepted… Short abstract: The University is broken. The game is up. It is conditioned by neoliberal politics through…
I wrote this whilst I listened to the tunes that defined 2013 for me. What did I learn this year? I lost faith in myself. I am trying to find it again. Starting with my being. It is my faith…
In a paper from 2011 entitled Questioning Technology in the Development of a Resilient Higher Education, Joss Winn and I looked at the interrelationships between peak oil, narratives of economic growth, and the idea of the university. We argued the…
Martin McQuillan has argued that the Coalition Government is placing borrowing at the heart of the UK’s higher education system. He notes that: Against all expectations George Osborne’s Autumn statement announced that the cap on student numbers in England would…
Marx was clear that given the nature of capitalist social relations, there can be no balanced growth or equilibrium reached inside production for the market. The history of crises, and of both State and transnational responses to those crises, crystallises…
This blog is autobiographical. But then you knew that, right? You knew that when I talk about emancipation or the struggle for communism as the negation of my negation or against my alienation or for a world beyond false consciousness,…
There is no us, there is only I, Dropped like a tear from my mother’s eye. Mother do you know your son at all? Looking for the things he’ll never find, Talks too much about suicide, Who can tell what’s…
This post was written whilst listening to LCD Soundsystem’s last concert at Madison Square Garden. ONE. Circuits of affect and resistance Yesterday I attended an ESRC seminar series on Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights. The seminar was on Affective…
“It isn’t for the moment that you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “You have to carry the fire.” “I don’t know how to.”…
ONE. Elsewhere on this blog I recently wrote about the domination of merchants in higher education: The links between commercial educational providers and universities, educators and students as producers and consumers of educational services, data and products, demonstrate power and…