17 things about 2013
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…
Richard Hall's Space
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Richard Hall's Space
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Category Education
beyond the space-time of debt and privatisation
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…
The co-operative university against indenture
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…
On the University, protest and a post-capitalist imagination
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…
Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal university
I’m presenting at the the CAPPE Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference next September, at the University of Brighton. My abstract is below. Abstract: Neoliberalism is a global pedagogical project aimed at the dispossession of free time so that all of…
On circuits of affect and resistance
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…
On Autonomist Marxism and the affective economy
I’m speaking on 29th November at an ESRC seminar series on Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights. The seminar is on Affective Digital Economy: Intimacy, Identity and Networked Realities. Whilst Josie Fraser will be speaking about our Digital Literacy Leicester Framework Project, I will…
Notes on the University and the association of capitals
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…
For a co-operative university
With Joss Winn from the University of Lincoln, I’m running a workshop at the Discourse, Power and Resistance conference next Easter. Our abstract is as follows. [Note that Mike Neary from Lincoln is also running a session on The University and…
On the domination of merchants in higher education
Merchants dominate producers now. Commercial capital and money-dealing capital dominate productive capital. The expropriation of surplus value from producers by merchant capital is a primary source of profit. In educational production, in the production of curriculum resources, in the funding…