#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I My two most recent articles have referenced Rhodes Must Fall. The first, “Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety” (with Kate Bowles), argues that narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might…
With Keith Smyth I have a paper forthcoming an Open Library of Humanities Journal, special edition on the abolition of the University. Our paper focuses on the higher education curriculum. It draws on Keith’s work on the space-time of the…
I have a new article out in Interactive Learning Environments. It is based on some work I was involved in with in 2013 with Helen Beetham, Debbie Holley and John Traxler, including a panel at ALT-C on global crises and…
Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while Let’s not try to figure out everything at once It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky We’re half awake in a fake empire The…
I read these pieces as I listened to The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come. it seems that the panopticon is about to be extended across the whole academic hierarchy with the introduction of ‘faculty dashboards’. These are tools which allow…
This is a collection of stuff related to the Green paper, grouped into: Political economics; Sector responses; HE marketisation; Teaching excellence; Learning gain; HE governance; Quality Assurance/regulation; and Research. It is not exhaustive and I probably won’t add to it. NOTE:…
I’m presenting at The Northern Universities Consortium (NUCCAT) annual conference in Manchester tomorrow. The abstract I agreed in appended below, alongside the key points that I will try to make about the issues and practices that are affecting how higher…
My reading of the Higher Education Green paper sits alongside that of the Universities and Colleges Union, with its highlighting of the critical absence of staff inside education policy. My reading emerges against the UK Treasury’s Productivity Plan, Fixing the…
I’ve had an article published in the Open Library of Humanities, based on my inaugural lecture. If you want to revisit those fun-times, you can do so here. The article is also on “The University and the Secular Crisis”, and…
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,…