#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
The traditional university produces knowledge as distinct from society, and does not consider the production of truth is itself a social, practical and material activity. In conceiving critical knowledge in the abstract, the University denies the place of social, practical…
Over at the architectural education podcast (Arch Ed Podcast) there is a conversation between me and James Benedict Brown about the state of higher education, with a little bit of jibber-jabber about Walsall FC. In a connected development, I will…
I’m keynoting the Newcastle College HE staff CPD event today. My slides are appended below. I have amended my keynote at Radical Pedagogies for this talk. However, the notes from that talk are still relevant. Participants at the talk collated…
There is a great new issue of TripleC (communication, capitalism and critique) out on Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism. I have an article in there on academic alienation, which scopes the terrain for the book on which I am working for…
Over the next month or so we have three events to discuss and celebrate the publication of Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education as part of Bloomsbury Academic’s series on perspectives on leadership in higher education. These events…
On Wednesday I’m speaking at the University of Greenwich Open Lectures in Teaching and Learning. The lecture will be broadcasted live via this link: The slides are appended below the abstract, which is based on this OLH article. Abstract…
We’re decadent beyond our means, we’ve a zeal We feel the things they’ll never feel They’re solemn in their wealth, we’re high in our poverty We see the things they never see Don’t confuse me with someone who gives a…
I presented at the DMU Institute for Education Futures seminar yesterday. My paper is based on a forthcoming article in a special issue of TripleC on academic labour, and underpins work that I am doing towards a monograph on the alienated academic, for Palgrave Macmillan.…
I’ve been asked to be a Board Member for Leicester Vaughan College, as it is being re-founded as an independent higher education college and governed as a co-operative Community Benefit Society. LVC aims to provide university-level education dedicated to the…
I’m leading the first DMU Institute for Education Futures’ seminar of the 2017/18 season on Tuesday 31st October from 13:00-14:00 in Hugh Aston, room 2.32. I’ll be speaking On the alienation of academic labour and the possibilities for mass intellectuality. The abstract is…