#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Working with 20 co-authors, Joss Winn and I have just submitted the manuscript for Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. The edited collection forms part of Bloomsbury Academic’s series on Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education. Assuming that…
I My two most recent articles have referenced Rhodes Must Fall. The first, “Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety” (with Kate Bowles), argues that narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might…
With Keith Smyth I have a paper forthcoming an Open Library of Humanities Journal, special edition on the abolition of the University. Our paper focuses on the higher education curriculum. It draws on Keith’s work on the space-time of the…
I’ve had an article published in the Open Library of Humanities, based on my inaugural lecture. If you want to revisit those fun-times, you can do so here. The article is also on “The University and the Secular Crisis”, and…
My experience and understanding of football has long been mediated politically. From 1999-2009 I set-up then chaired the Walsall Football Supporters Trust. In that time we sought ordinary shares in Walsall FC, and became the 10th largest shareholder at the…
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…
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…
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,…
This is a long-read, at over 5,400 words. Why not read and listen to this lovely Frankie Knuckles’ Boiler Room set? ONE. On open co-operatives Joss Winn has been writing extensively about the idea of “open co-operatives” (here and here) with…
I’m presenting at “Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology and resistance“ in May. My abstract is noted below. In the Grundrisse, Marx argued that the circulation of productive capital was “a process of transformation, a qualitative process of value”. As capitalists…