#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
So. Here we are. It was my Professorial Inaugural yesterday. There is a slides/audio recording of it here (my jibber-jabber starts around 5 minutes in, but there is a rolling slideshow beforehand. If you watch this, do so whilst listening…
Our concrete/abstract alienation In his Education After Auschwitz, Adorno wrote (p. 6) that People who blindly slot themselves into the collective already make themselves into something like inert material, extinguish themselves as self-determined beings. With this comes the willingness to…
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…
“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…
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’m presenting at the Plymouth University Pedagogic Research conference on Wednesday, about higher education and the triple crunch. There are some notes on the University and the secular crisis [crunch 1]. There are some notes on climate change and liquid fuel…
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…
Starting October 2014, and available to suitably qualified UK or EU students. Closing date for applications: Friday March 21st 2014. Background In the last 18 months I’ve been working with Josie Fraser and Lucy Atkins on a co-operative project between…
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…