#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
These notes were written whilst listening to Rave Tapes by Mogwai and this alt-J performance on npr. I attended a seminar in Brighton on Thursday called Resisting Neoliberal Education: Alternative Systems, Discourse and Practice. My notes and thoughts from the…
I’m heading down to Brighton for a seminar on “Resisting Neoliberal Education: Alternative Systems, Discourse and Practice”. The title of the event has made me consider what resistance might mean in my own set of contexts. This relates to my…
On the back of my inaugural, my friend Matt emailed me saying: I said I had a question, which essentially boils down to the phrase ‘common wealth’ that you used at one point in your talk. Universities – and particularly…
So. Here we are. It was my Professorial Inaugural yesterday. There is a slides/audio recording of it here (my jibber-jabber starts around 5 minutes in, but there is a rolling slideshow beforehand. If you watch this, do so whilst listening…
There are details of my inaugural here and here. There is a taster trailer at 225lols. <>courage<> There is a collaborative Spotify playlist, prof_lols. The final cut playlist is at 225lols. <>faith<> I’ll use the hashtag #225lols, and I’ll probably Storify…
In my on-going quest to abolish myself, I have a paper accepted in the open access journal, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, “On the abolition of academic labour: the relationship between intellectual workers and mass intellectuality”. Abstract This article analyses the…
The subsumption of academic life, through competition and financialisation, and driven by the disciplinary control of data and debt, enforces widening inequalities inside higher education (HE). Moreover, subsumption works to modify the processes of accumulation, which enable academic labour, in…
I’m presenting at the CAPPE Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference on Thursday in Brighton, on Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal university. My slides are available here. I will be arguing three points. ONE. Technology reveals an entrepreneurial reconfiguring…
You do it to yourself, you do/And that’s what really hurts Is that you do it to yourself/Just you and no one else You do it to yourself Radiohead. 1995. Just. That there/That’s not me I go/Where I please…
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…