#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
In June I presented in Leeds at the Building Sustainable Societies, Sustainable Education conference. I spoke about Social sustainability, mass intellectuality and the idea of the University. My slides and some resources are available on this blog-post. However, the lovely Jack Palmer at Leeds has…
There is a chapter in Eugene Lyons’ Assignment in Utopia, in which he argued that the processes of industrialisation that underpinned Stalin’s five-year plans were used to recalibrate the world so that two plus two could be said to equal…
There is a point that Joss Winn and I make in a critique of academic labour that is against hypostatizing labour as ‘identity’ because this can only lead either to learned helplessness in the face of governmentality or performativity, or…
ONE. Coercion through signalisation and dressage In Discipline and Punish, Foucault writes of emergent military tactics focused upon the co-operation and the accumulation and co-ordination of co-operative, productive forces that Marx sees inside the factory. Hence, the need to find…
On Monday 30 June, I’m presenting in Leeds at the Building Sustainable Societies, Sustainable Education conference. I’m speaking about Social sustainability, mass intellectuality and the idea of the University. Abstract This presentation considers the interconnections between critical pedagogy and the…
This is a long-read, at over 5,400 words. Why not read and listen to this lovely Frankie Knuckles’ Boiler Room set? ONE. On open co-operatives Joss Winn has been writing extensively about the idea of “open co-operatives” (here and here) with…
Our concrete/abstract alienation In his Education After Auschwitz, Adorno wrote (p. 6) that People who blindly slot themselves into the collective already make themselves into something like inert material, extinguish themselves as self-determined beings. With this comes the willingness to…
Ahead of our workshop on Mass Intellectuality, Joss Winn has argued the following about the term Mass Intellectuality. A couple of people have questioned our use of the term ‘mass intellectuality’ for the title of our proposed book: ‘Mass Intellectuality:…
I have three presentations coming-up at really exciting events. The presentations are on academic labour, and I’m pleased that Joss Winn is also involved in two of these. The first is at the Governing Academic Life conference, which is “oriented…
On 30 June I’m presenting at the Sustainable Education strand of the international conference Building Sustainable Societies. I’m planning on speaking about “Social sustainability, mass intellectuality and the idea of the University”. My abstract is appended below. This presentation considers…