on the (im)possibility of speaking
Do you want to be afraid? Do you want to be afraid? For life in the cage where courage’s mate runs deep in the wake For the scariest things are not half as enslaved Sufjan Stevens, Impossible Soul. I came…
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notes against educational ‘managerialism’
Yesterday I wrote that a while back I’d been asked to contribute to some work-in-progress on the idea of dangerous words. The three terms I selected were ‘immiseration’, ‘managerialism’, and ‘alternative education’. The work-in-progress hasn’t progressed so I’ve decided to…
notes on educational ‘immiseration’
At 4.30am this morning I remembered that a while back I’d been asked to contribute to some work-in-progress on the idea of dangerous words. The three terms I selected were ‘immiseration’, ‘managerialism’, and ‘alternative education’. The work-in-progress hasn’t progressed so…
anthropological regression and education futures
I’ve been reading the proofs for our forthcoming book on mass intellectuality and alternative forms of higher education. In particular, I have been taken by this snippet from our introductory chapter. The positions taken in the book are plural, emerging…
notes on academic alienation and mass intellectuality
I presented at the Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues seminar on Wednesday. My paper is based on a submission under review to a forthcoming special issue of TripleC on academic labour, and underpins work that I am doing towards a…
Against the fetishisation of the porous university
I’m speaking on Monday and Tuesday next week at a Porous University event in Inverness. My provocation is below. In addressing the question of the role of open academics in dealing with problems ‘in the world’, this provocation takes…
Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues, seminar
Lifted from the Marxism and Education Renewing Dialogues Facebook feed: final notice of Marxism and Education Renewing Dialogues (MERD) Seminar, Education from Brexit to Trump… Corbyn and beyond? Wednesday 3rd May 2017, 10am-4pm University of East London, Stratford Campus, Cass…
Performance information and data-driven academic anxiety
I have a chapter in a new open access e-book. The book is entitled: Education and Technology: Critical Approaches. The book is in Portuguese and English, and can be accessed here. My chapter is: Hall, R. (2017). Performance information and data-driven…
On the alienation of academic labour and the possibilities for mass intellectuality
I have just submitted a manuscript, “On the alienation of academic labour and the possibilities for mass intellectuality” to tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. The abstract is given below, but the…
a manifesto for academic citizenship
A piece in the Times Higher Education by Liz Morrish on why she chose to tackle the failings of the neoliberal academy from the outside is very powerful testimony. She argues that “Academia badly needs a manifesto for academic citizenship to counteract…