Inside. Through. Beyond. Me.
I’m in my head. I can’t get around this. I’m driven to crucify myself in my own head. And to question my sense of self, my concrete reality, how I live and think and do. In my own head. Because…
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three presentations on academic labour
I have three presentations coming-up at really exciting events. The presentations are on academic labour, and I’m pleased that Joss Winn is also involved in two of these. The first is at the Governing Academic Life conference, which is “oriented…
notes on the proto/rollback/rollout phases of the co-operative university
Stephen Ball writes of three stages of neoliberalism. The first is proto, and refers to the intellectual genesis and maturation of the project. This is the cultural attack on the everyday reality of the public and of the State, and…
Friction! co-operation and technology in the neoliberal university
On Thursday I’m presenting at Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology & resistance at the University of Nottingham. I’ll be speaking about co-operation and technology in the neoliberal university. The abstract is appended below and the slides are here. Abstract In the…
notes on the university and a pedagogy for change
“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…
The implications of Autonomist Marxism for research and practice in education and technology
I have a new article out in Learning, Media and Technology, with the fun title of “The implications of Autonomist Marxism for research and practice in education and technology”. The article is available (if you subscribe) here. Sadly, the article…
Call for contributions to a book on “Mass Intellectuality: The democratisation of higher education”
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…
Professorial Inaugural: 2+2=5: The university and the secular crisis
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…
On the co-operative university and the general intellect
The question, pace David Bollier, is whether academics and students as scholars can learn to see their labour in common, in order to think and to act co-operatively? From our re-reading of the Grundrisse, we are able to raise our…
on digital literacy, use value and alienation
With Lucy Atkins and Josie Fraser, I’ve just had a paper published on Defining a self-evaluation digital literacy framework for secondary educators. The abstract for this paper connects educational policy to classroom practice, in order to support the creation of…