#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
On Monday I’m at the University of Bradford speaking at a panel session at the Peaceful Relations and the Transformation of the World: An Academic-Practitioner Dialogue on Peace in the 21st Century. The panel is on Prospects for Peace Education…
To set you up for life [in debt] Going to university is still a big decision, and it’s a choice which more and more of you are making. We want that decision to pay off, to set you up for…
Stay in the shadows/Cheer at the gallows/This is a round up/This is a low flying panic attack Radiohead. 2016. Burn the Witch. ONE: showing-up as the limit of our educational hopes Years ago I wrote the following about our relationship…
With Kate Bowles, I have an article coming out in volume 28 of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, entitled: Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety The article looks at the psychological impacts on academics…
I In a presentation at DMU today Bahram Bekhradnia of the Higher Education Policy Institute argued that research inside universities was being conducted at the expense of teaching. His evidence for this was not academic staff workload data, but student…
This post was written whilst listening to Sharon van Etten’s Glastonbury set from 2015. One: Preamble This is a post about the proletarianisation of the university. This is a post about the exploitation of our labour-time. This is a post…
I My two most recent articles have referenced Rhodes Must Fall. The first, “Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety” (with Kate Bowles), argues that narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might…
With Keith Smyth I have a paper forthcoming an Open Library of Humanities Journal, special edition on the abolition of the University. Our paper focuses on the higher education curriculum. It draws on Keith’s work on the space-time of the…
I’ve had an article published in the Open Library of Humanities, based on my inaugural lecture. If you want to revisit those fun-times, you can do so here. The article is also on “The University and the Secular Crisis”, and…
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths Banquo, Act 1, Scene III, Macbeth. “Kettling is a police tactic to control crowds where officers surround a group of people on all sides. In…