#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I In a recent critique of workfare, Aaron Peters connects its objective reality to the response of lamentation given by the TUC and the organised left. This response represents a refusal to use the very means by which capital is…
Yesterday, Brian Lamb tweeted that: “I inexplicably find debates on CC-NC fascinating now… But I need a clearer sense on what “enclosure” means in practice, not just theory.” The educational technology field is rife with emergent discussions of the connections…
An informal reading group met last night to discuss Niall Ferguson’s Reith Lectures. The general consensus was that the lectures represent a crisis of hegemonic neoliberalism, with a picture being created of the structures of political and civil society being…
I In an excellent article on Technology, Distribution and the Rate of Profit in the US Economy: Understanding the Current Crisis, Basu and Vasudevan scope the connections between falling capital productivity, the tendency of the rate of profit to fall,…
I’m presenting at the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development conference on Thursday June 7. I’ll be speaking about Educational technology and the war on public education. My slides are on my slideshare. There is a fuller…
The theme of the place and politics of the Academic Commons crops up often in my writing and work. In particular I am taken with ideas of how and where academics and students as scholars can resist and then push…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 14 October 2011 Some matters arising from Mobility Shifts and from yesterday’s student-as-producer seminar at CUNY. How do we critique formalised education as an ideological apparatus of the state-for-capital? Are we interested in transition…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 1 September 2011 Closure and exclusion Following his leadership of the successful Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) occupation and work-in of 1971-72, the Communist and trades unionist Jimmy Reid was elected as Rector of the…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 12 July 2011 Brian Lamb has highlighted two quotes that made me think about politics, power, consensus and the web, and most importantly, about History. David Eaves, Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 29 June 2011 Nervously, and without any real need whatever, Franny pushed back her hair with one hand. ‘I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in…