#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Over at Postdigital Science and Education, I have a new article out: The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History The abstract is appended below. The University is being explicitly restructured for the production, circulation…
I am pleased that, over at Power and Education, There is a review by Fergal Finnegan of: The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside University. Fergal’s review was very generous and insightful, and connects to those of Joss Winn…
I direct the evaluation for the Decolonising DMU Project. With Kaushika Patel and Chris Hall (no relation), I am presenting on the project at the Advance HE Learning and Teaching Conference next week. If you have registered for the conference…
With Krystian Szadkowski from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, I am working on an article for a Special Issue of Praktyka Teoretyczna on Latency of the crisis: globalization, subjectivity, and resistance. Our proposed article is entitled: Has the University become…
NB. this is not a blog-post. It is an essay. It is too long, so probably best not reading it. Do something else, less boring instead. There is a PDF version here. ONE. The political economy of transition and separation…
¡Que se vayan todos! They all must go. Enough is enough. These people who claim to lead. These people have no moral authority. These people who are making decisions that affect our lives and the lives of those who are…
With Rosi Smith in Education and James Evans in Strategic Planning at DMU, I am planning to kick-start a Critical University Studies Reading Group at DMU. The first meeting will be 12.30-13.30 on Wednesday 25th March, in Hugh Aston 1.47.…
It’s been a while – my energy has been elsewhere, caring for my Nan (102!), reading Hegel, thinking about dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and philosophy and science, and trying to get my head around the next book project (The…
Next Tuesday I’m speaking at the Safeguarding Students: Addressing Mental Health Needs Conference. My slides are available below, and from Slideshare. The intention is to frame this around: resources on academic ill-being; writing about weltschmerz; writing about hopelessness; and work…
Next Tuesday, 24 September, I’m chairing a discussion at the Labour Party Conference Fringe. The session is a joint UCU and Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) event that emerges from some work that I undertook with Sol Gamsu…