#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
As threatened last week, I appear to have more energy for this again. So, I sat down with my compadre Rob Weale from DMU for some jibber-jabber about the process of making as a protest of creativity. Rob works as…
It’s been a while – my energy has been elsewhere, caring for my Nan (102!), reading Hegel, thinking about dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and philosophy and science, and trying to get my head around the next book project (The…
*Parental Advisory* between 17 and 18 minutes there is some swearing, as we discuss interactions following an English Defence League demonstration in Leicester in 2010. It’s been a while, and I have been spending so much time marking essays that…
This is the Q&A session from my book launch. For the opening conversation with Sarah Amsler, check out Episode 4. The Alienated Academic is available from the Palgrave site, or it’s a little cheaper via institutional access to Springer Link.…
So, in this podcast we have the first half of my book launch from last night held at DMU. I was privileged to be in conversation with Sarah Amsler from the University of Nottingham, with some friends and comrades in…
So, mid-week I have an invite-only book launch for The Alienated Academic here at DMU. I needed to test the AV kit that we are going to use for recording my conversation with Sarah Amsler from the University of Nottingham,…
In this podcast I decided to try not to use the words interesting and important too often. Instead, I got a little vexed by listening to Sam Gyimah and Michael Barber at the recent WonkHE event, with their standard focus…
I spoke early this morning (8.05am in the fog, wearing too few layers!) at a DMU event in support of the UN sustainable development goals: ‘24 Hours with the Global Goals’. I spoke about the interrelationship between SDG4: Quality Education,…
For some time I have been writing and speaking about academic alienation. This has taken a Marxist-humanist approach to understanding academic work, and the alienation of academic labour-power. I have always been interested in the lived experience of alienation, and…
In retrospect Steve Smith’s article linked in a previous posting on the University and the rule of money is important in highlighting that the UK Government’s austerity agenda will tighten considerably in the aftermath of the next General Election in…