#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Back in June I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium about authoritarian neoliberalism and the alienation of academic labour. My focus was on authoritarian neoliberalism as a heuristic for analysing the idea of the University, and…
I have a new monograph out with Palgrave Macmillan, entitled The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University The book’s abstract is as follows: Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are…
I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium yesterday. My slides and initial thoughts are here. These are the thoughts I had when statements and people stopped or challenged me during the day. ONE. Analyses of neoliberalism…
I will be developing some of my thinking about HE at a British Educational Research Association symposium, Debating theories of neoliberalism: New perspectives and framings in education research tomorrow. My abstract and references are here. The flyer can be downloaded…
You have to know what’s wrong before you can find what’s right Toni Morrison. Song of Solomon. as far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of…
So it’s us v. them/Over and over again Us v. them/Over and over again Us v. them/Over and over again LCD Soundsystem, Us V Them. ‘An age of crisis, such as the present, is an age of rage. It is…
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…