#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
With Lucy Atkins and Josie Fraser, I’ve just had a paper published on Defining a self-evaluation digital literacy framework for secondary educators. The abstract for this paper connects educational policy to classroom practice, in order to support the creation of…
I read this by Kate Bowles about speaking words that are true, necessary and kind. And I read this by Kate Bowles about how that social media joke isn’t funny anymore. Those two posts led to me to ask the…
I presented yesterday at the Plymouth University Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory annual conference. I spoke about the impact on higher education of climate change and liquid fuel availability, as symptoms of the secular crisis of capitalism. These are the…
I’m presenting at the Plymouth University Pedagogic Research conference on Wednesday, about higher education and the triple crunch. There are some notes on the University and the secular crisis [crunch 1]. There are some notes on climate change and liquid fuel…
I would be your king But you want to be free Confusion and art I’m nothing but heart (as we stumble to the shore… as we walk into the night …. this before can’t say it anymore…) Low. 2011. Nothing…
ONE. The bleeding of our souls. There is no escape from the living death of capitalist work (Dinerstein and Neary). This leads Cederström and Fleming to argue that our whole existence bleeds our souls in the name of value.…
I’m presenting at “Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology and resistance“ in May. My abstract is noted below. In the Grundrisse, Marx argued that the circulation of productive capital was “a process of transformation, a qualitative process of value”. As capitalists…
In discussing academic labour, Chomsky made the interesting point that: The university is probably the social institution in our society that comes closest to democratic worker control. Within a department, for example, it’s pretty normal for at least the tenured…
Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Joss Winn and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of their being critical responses to ‘intellectual leadership’ in mainstream…
I have a number of presentations coming up that focus upon academic alienation, academic labour and academic activism. The connection between alienation and work, revealed in normative responses to the triple crunch of climate change, peak oil and austerity, leads…