#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Over on WonkHE I’ve just had a piece published on academic ill-health, which touches on some issues I have raised previously about anxiety, the University as an anxiety machine, overwork and alienation. It complements these things I have previously written about academic…
For there to be winners, there have to be losers. Truth is an act of love. I’ve been writing about against the TEF forever. In order to celebrate yesterday’s TEF results, I thought I would see just how much I…
Do you want to be afraid? Do you want to be afraid? For life in the cage where courage’s mate runs deep in the wake For the scariest things are not half as enslaved Sufjan Stevens, Impossible Soul. I came…
I presented at the Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues seminar on Wednesday. My paper is based on a submission under review to a forthcoming special issue of TripleC on academic labour, and underpins work that I am doing towards a…
I have a chapter in a new open access e-book. The book is entitled: Education and Technology: Critical Approaches. The book is in Portuguese and English, and can be accessed here. My chapter is: Hall, R. (2017). Performance information and data-driven…
A piece in the Times Higher Education by Liz Morrish on why she chose to tackle the failings of the neoliberal academy from the outside is very powerful testimony. She argues that “Academia badly needs a manifesto for academic citizenship to counteract…
I have an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan for a monograph with the title The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University. It builds on writing here, and has the following aims. The book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of…
It is also popularly believed to be possible to “gaslight” a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting [her] own behavior to [her] as symptomatic of serious mental illness. While “gaslighting” itself may be a mythical crime, there is no…
The reflection in the water showed an iron man still trying to salute People from a time when he was everything he’s supposed to be Everything means nothing to me Everything means nothing to me Elliott Smith. 2000. Everything means…
In his mid-40s, John had worked as a casual university tutor since finishing his PhD in philosophy 15 years ago. Passed over a few times for tenured jobs, he was a long-term member of the academic reserve army, the members…