#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Back in August 2012 I wrote a note on the subsumption of academic labour that included the following. This latter point brings me to the politics of higher education and the ways in which political society advocates in the name…
I have an article coming out in a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology next year, on open education. It’s entitled “For a political economy of open education”. Abstract In understanding the changes that are impacting the global higher…
Joss Winn reminds me that Karl Marx’s Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association, “The First International” in late October 1864, included the following statement about the political importance of collective work, association and combination, as a bulwark against the economic and…
Tomorrow I’m speaking on a panel at The Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. The panel is on “Open Education: Condition Critical”. The purpose is to explore “opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of what the university and education…
I’m speaking at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) on 25 March 2015 about the relationship between capitalism, educational technology, and the proletarianisation of the University. How lovely. The working title is: Against educational technology in…
I’ve been reminded this week, by Joss Winn’s excellent article “Writing about academic labour” that There is an understandable tendency among critics of the current crisis in higher education to want to restore the university to what it once was,…
On November 20th I’m speaking on a panel at The Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. The panel is on “Open Education: Condition Critical”. The purpose is to explore “opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of…
These notes were written whilst listening to Rave Tapes by Mogwai and this alt-J performance on npr. I attended a seminar in Brighton on Thursday called Resisting Neoliberal Education: Alternative Systems, Discourse and Practice. My notes and thoughts from the…
I’m heading down to Brighton for a seminar on “Resisting Neoliberal Education: Alternative Systems, Discourse and Practice”. The title of the event has made me consider what resistance might mean in my own set of contexts. This relates to my…
On the back of my inaugural, my friend Matt emailed me saying: I said I had a question, which essentially boils down to the phrase ‘common wealth’ that you used at one point in your talk. Universities – and particularly…