#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
On Tuesday 13 December De Montfort University will be hosting the Roots of Violent Radicalisation Conference, which has been organised by the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee. I will be speaking in the workshop on how Universities can best counter…
This afternoon I am speaking at a DMU-hosted event called: THE ASSAULT ON UNIVERSITIES: Privatisation, Secrecy and the Future of Higher Education, which is being chaired by Stuart Price. My argument will focus on 4 points. 1. That our existence…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 14 October 2011 Some matters arising from Mobility Shifts and from yesterday’s student-as-producer seminar at CUNY. How do we critique formalised education as an ideological apparatus of the state-for-capital? Are we interested in transition…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 15 October 2011 These are my notes from yesterday’s sessions on cognitive capitalism, the University as knowledge factory and alternatives to higher education, from Mobility Shifts. I’ve also posted my tweets from a student…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 16 November 2011 I kept the faith and I kept voting/Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand/For theirs is a land with a wall around it/ And mine is a faith…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 7 November 2011 I spoke at a session for Tent City University yesterday, with Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Alex Callinicos, Dave Hill, Guy Mitchell of the Really Open University, and a student activist from…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 4 November 2011 I want to make a brief return to one implication of the ideas fleshed out by Joss Winn earlier this year in a post on the Triple Crunch, which focused on…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 11 November 2011 “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 ONE. At…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 September 2011 I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 September 2011 At ALT-C 2011 I took part in a symposium on the Paradox of Openness: the true cost of giving online. I blogged about what I might say, as an introduction. In…