#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.” bell hooks (2008). Belonging: A Culture of Place. New York: Routledge. “It…
This is a final call for contributions to a book on “Mass Intellectuality: The democratisation of higher education” that Joss Winn and I are pulling together. More details are available here. The book aims to provide international critiques and accounts…
My inaugural professorial lecture is scheduled for Wednesday 8 October 2014, at 6pm at DMU. I will try to stream it. I will post details of how to book to attend closer to the time. A working abstract is given below. However, I…
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…
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…