#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I have an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan for a monograph with the title The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University. It builds on writing here, and has the following aims. The book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of…
It is also popularly believed to be possible to “gaslight” a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting [her] own behavior to [her] as symptomatic of serious mental illness. While “gaslighting” itself may be a mythical crime, there is no…
I have a chapter in an edited collection called Negotiating Neoliberalism: Developing Alternative Educational Visions. The Sense Publishers website contains previews of the first two chapters. My chapter is entitled: Against Academic Labour and the Dehumanisation of Educational Possibility. The…
ONE. Universities as tools of economic progress and social mobility. The HE Bill reaching the Lords has catalysed a fresh discussion around ideas, first, of the University itself, and second, of academic freedom. These are the perceived form/purpose and content…
The reflection in the water showed an iron man still trying to salute People from a time when he was everything he’s supposed to be Everything means nothing to me Everything means nothing to me Elliott Smith. 2000. Everything means…
ONE. The mobilisation of neo-liberalism In ‘Remaking the World’: Neo-liberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teachers’ Labour, Susan Robertson argues that the roll-back of education and the expertise of the teacher, in order to roll-out private sector alternatives is…
(It might be over soon, two two) Where you gonna look for confirmation? And if it’s ever gonna happen So as I’m standing at the station It might be over soon Bon Iver. 2016. 22 (OVER S∞∞N) Academia can be a…
I’ve just submitted a chapter for a book project being managed out of the University Estácio de Sá in Rio de Janeiro. The editors have four previous volumes entitled Education and Technology: Partnerships (although the original idea is a little lost in…
I have three things recently published or forthcoming that are about academic labour and its relationship to society. These pick-up on two themes that have been increasingly important to me: first, academic alienation and anxiety, or the idea that the…
On Monday I contributed to a panel discussion on Prospects for Peace Education in the Neoliberal Era, as part of the Adam Curle Symposium hosted by the Peace Studies Division at University of Bradford. I made the following points.. ONE.…