#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
The theme of the place and politics of the Academic Commons crops up often in my writing and work. In particular I am taken with ideas of how and where academics and students as scholars can resist and then push…
In her latest post on the digital university, which focuses upon information literacy, Sheila MacNeill argues that “technological change in the production and consumption of information content” should “not allowed to obscure the importance of developing the educational, ethical and…
I’m presenting two linked papers on higher education/the assault on public education in the UK. I’ll blog what I plan to say here, and link to my slideshare. The first presentation is at Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics,…
The Cambridge Mathematician, Tim Gower, has highlighted a campaign against the publisher Reed Elsevier for the tripartite crimes of: high pricing; bundling, which pushes what Gower hints are inappropriate or poor quality journals with those that are good; “ruthless” behaviour…
In her seminar on “Diagnosing the contemporary: prolific activism, hyper-neoliberalism and the problem of power and consent”, Janet Newman drew on her research into feminist critiques of the ideology and practices of neoliberalism, in order to challenge the realities of…
I The threat of the increasing proletarianisation of our lives under austerity politics is increasingly invoked and folded into the debate over how we structure our social relations. Proletarianisation is an outcome of the materialist nature of our productive relations…
I’ve written about mobiles before, and you can read that stuff here. I’ve written about tech-determinism before, in particular in a post here. The issues I am trying to reflect on are part of a critique of technology inside capitalist…
I In 2006, John Denham, Labour MP and former cabinet minister, argued in the Chartist that All public services have to be based on a diversity of independent providers who compete for business in a market governed by Consumer choice.…
I The rule of money as the prime motive force in UK higher education after the White Paper of 2010 led Natalie Fenton to write that “The brutal enforcement of market principles into every aspect of higher education is a…
These are my notes from today’s Home Affairs Select Committee conference on the Roots to Violent Radicalisation, held at De Montfort University. The highlight of the day was attending the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s award of an honorary doctorate. Along with…