on academia and life
(It might be over soon, two two) Where you gonna look for confirmation? And if it’s ever gonna happen So as I’m standing at the station It might be over soon Bon Iver. 2016. 22 (OVER S∞∞N) Academia can be a…
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writing about academic labour
I have three things recently published or forthcoming that are about academic labour and its relationship to society. These pick-up on two themes that have been increasingly important to me: first, academic alienation and anxiety, or the idea that the…
notes on peace education and indignation
On Monday I contributed to a panel discussion on Prospects for Peace Education in the Neoliberal Era, as part of the Adam Curle Symposium hosted by the Peace Studies Division at University of Bradford. I made the following points.. ONE.…
Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety
With Kate Bowles, I have an article coming out in volume 28 of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, entitled: Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety The article looks at the psychological impacts on academics…
notes on academic overwork and surplus value
I In a presentation at DMU today Bahram Bekhradnia of the Higher Education Policy Institute argued that research inside universities was being conducted at the expense of teaching. His evidence for this was not academic staff workload data, but student…
notes on academic overwork
This post was written whilst listening to Sharon van Etten’s Glastonbury set from 2015. One: Preamble This is a post about the proletarianisation of the university. This is a post about the exploitation of our labour-time. This is a post…
On the Open Library of Humanities
I’m really excited to have become a Trustee for the Open Library of Humanities. Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards have been working tirelessly on developing financial/governance, technological, academic and social models for the OLH as an alternative, open access publishing…
on disorder and faith
Tied up in disgrace/How can we keep a man so long/Waiting for a fate/Stripped of all our hearts/Never dreamed we would belong/In a world, a world that’s just gone wrong And if we try to stand alone/We’ll be playing with…
notes on a teaching-anxiety [excellence] framework
slower and more calculated/no chance of escape/now self-employed/concerned (but powerless)/an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)/ calm/fitter, healthier and more productive/a pig/in a cage/on antibiotics Radiohead. 1997. Fitter. Happier. ONE. Endings Endings are important. Fucked-up endings remain.…
on dismantling the curriculum in higher education
I’m presenting at the Bishop Grosseteste University learning and teaching conference on Monday 22 June. There is a separate blog-post on my topic of dismantling the curriculum in higher education here. The abstract and some references are linked here. The slides for my…