My background to dissolution
I always try to do some due diligence in relation to the things that I write and the books that I publish. My latest book, The Dissolution of the Universities, emerged from reading over a number of years about the…
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Published: The Dissolution of the Universities
My new book, The Dissolution of the Universities, has been published by MayFly Books. It is free to download from the MayFly website. If you can donate to keep the radical press going that would be appreciated. My sincere thanks…
The Dissolution of the Universities: 24 June
My new book with MayFly Books is published next Wednesday, 24 June. The book begins from the premise that: The University is in crisis because it is the crisis. The argument works with one of the key questions raised by…
New book: The Dissolution of the Universities
I have just submitted the final draft for a monograph with MayFly Books. The title is The Dissolution of the Universities. This book was written in the shadow of Gaza. It forms one strand of my grieving and mourning the…
New book project: Beyond University Abolition
I have agreed a new book project with MayFly Books. Having worked with MayFly for my previous monograph, The Hopeless University in 2021, the ethos underpinning this publisher aligns with my own democratic and horizontal approach. I feel that the…
Beyond the Limits of Solidarity in the Post-Pandemic University
I have a new paper accepted in a forthcoming Special Issue: Organisation in the (Post)Pandemic University, of Work organisation, labour & globalisation. The paper is titled Beyond the Limits of Solidarity in the Post-Pandemic University. The abstract is appended below.…
for whom do we write as the world burns?
This is the text of the talk I have just given at the Symposium, Little Acts of Decolonization. I am very grateful to Juliet Henderson, Bally Kaur, Amrita Narang and Sayan Dey for their support. It erupts from some indignation…
Weaving other worlds with, against and beyond Marx
Back in December 2021 I began working with Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), on a Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education. We hope that the Handbook…
Ill-Being and the Hopeless University
On June 14th, 2023, I presented an Ends of Knowledge reading group and seminar. The blurb for the event is pasted below, and you can sign-up via Eventbrite. But I wouldn’t. That time has passed. But the slides are appended…
Notes on leaving UCU
I joined NATFHE in 1994. When it merged with the AUT and formed UCU, I migrated across. I had never not been on strike when called. I had never not picketed. Even on my own. Even in the rain. Even…