on the University as anxiety machine
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…
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Tag alienation
on academic labour and performance anxiety
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.…
on academic labour and plutonomy
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…
Presentations on academic alienation, academic labour and academic activism
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…
On the domination of time and the liberation of a pedagogical alliance
ONE. Academics and socially necessary labour time. In the University, abstract time dominates: the 50-minute hour; the four-week turnaround for feedback on work; being always-on through tethered technologies; the production of journal articles and books; the production and circulation of…
some notes on academic co-option and exodus
ONE. This is an age of enclosure; of mine and not yours; of indentured study; of an entrepreneurial life beholden to capitalist work; of a subservience to exchange value; of alienation in the face of money. In the face of…
On the context and use-value of academic labour
Michael Roberts has argued that the UK’s economy, and in particular the productive sectors of the economy, are struggling to recover from the global financial shock of 2008. Roberts argues that What the comparative data show is that real GDP…
On alienation and the curriculum
ONE. On alienation, time and exchange In the Grundrisse, Marx argued that the possibility of human subjectivity, of an autonomy or agency for humans in their work and their leisure, was impossible inside the structuring social relations enforced by capitalism.…
on depression and alienation
There is no us, there is only I, Dropped like a tear from my mother’s eye. Mother do you know your son at all? Looking for the things he’ll never find, Talks too much about suicide, Who can tell what’s…
Notes on the University and the association of capitals
ONE. Elsewhere on this blog I recently wrote about the domination of merchants in higher education: The links between commercial educational providers and universities, educators and students as producers and consumers of educational services, data and products, demonstrate power and…