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So, mid-week I have an invite-only book launch for The Alienated Academic here at DMU. There’s a discussion of this over on The Alienated Academic Podcast, with my good friend John Coster. There will be an edited version of the…

Over on the podcast channel, there’s a new podcast. It features some lovely music, which is licensed under Creative Commons as attribution, share alike, non-commercial. The tracks are as follows. The podcast opens with: Tha Silent Partner, Roses (Intro), from the…

A few people have contacted me about the cost of my book with Palgrave, the alienated academic. I raised this with the publishers who replied: I would advise that your colleagues check if they have access to the book via…

On Sunday I had the deep privilege of attending the funeral of Joyce Canaan. This was a service of celebration led by Joyce’s family who were held in the embrace of her friends as they carried her body to rest…

I spoke yesterday at radical pedagogies: a humanities teaching forum at the University of Kent. My slides are here. A recording of my jibber-jabber will be made available at some point via the conference website. However, there is a recording…

There is a Spotify playlist for all these fragments. It’s here. There are shattered fragments. Projections of what I choose to remember. What I choose to remember framed by what I want to remember. What I want to remember better…

It was Mother’s Day the other day. The most painful day. That is until the anniversary of her death. And every day in-between, I wake up and my heart breaks again. In an interview Sufjan Stevens says: Her death was…

On 25 June, I’m presenting at the Governing Academic Life conference as part of a panel on co-operative education. My presentation will be on academic labour and co-operative struggles for subjectivity. The abstract is appended below, and the slides are uploaded here.…