#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I presented yesterday at the Plymouth University Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory annual conference. I spoke about the impact on higher education of climate change and liquid fuel availability, as symptoms of the secular crisis of capitalism. These are the…
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…
Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Joss Winn and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of their being critical responses to ‘intellectual leadership’ in mainstream…
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…
Tomorrow DMU’s UCU branch is hosting a workshop/teach-in for students and staff about the higher education industrial action. The workshop will take place between 10.40 and 12.15 in St Andrew’s Community Hall, Gateway Street. The entrance is on Gateway Street.…
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.…
I’ve just submitted this for the Higher Education Academy’s 2014 conference. It’s not contentious to me. But let’s see if it gets accepted… Short abstract: The University is broken. The game is up. It is conditioned by neoliberal politics through…
I wrote this whilst I listened to the tunes that defined 2013 for me. What did I learn this year? I lost faith in myself. I am trying to find it again. Starting with my being. It is my faith…
Martin McQuillan has argued that the Coalition Government is placing borrowing at the heart of the UK’s higher education system. He notes that: Against all expectations George Osborne’s Autumn statement announced that the cap on student numbers in England would…
Marx was clear that given the nature of capitalist social relations, there can be no balanced growth or equilibrium reached inside production for the market. The history of crises, and of both State and transnational responses to those crises, crystallises…