#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Tomorrow I’m speaking on a panel at The Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. The panel is on “Open Education: Condition Critical”. The purpose is to explore “opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of what the university and education…
I’m speaking at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) on 25 March 2015 about the relationship between capitalism, educational technology, and the proletarianisation of the University. How lovely. The working title is: Against educational technology in…
I’ve been reminded this week, by Joss Winn’s excellent article “Writing about academic labour” that There is an understandable tendency among critics of the current crisis in higher education to want to restore the university to what it once was,…
I’m heading down to Brighton for a seminar on “Resisting Neoliberal Education: Alternative Systems, Discourse and Practice”. The title of the event has made me consider what resistance might mean in my own set of contexts. This relates to my…
So. Here we are. It was my Professorial Inaugural yesterday. There is a slides/audio recording of it here (my jibber-jabber starts around 5 minutes in, but there is a rolling slideshow beforehand. If you watch this, do so whilst listening…
In June I presented in Leeds at the Building Sustainable Societies, Sustainable Education conference. I spoke about Social sustainability, mass intellectuality and the idea of the University. My slides and some resources are available on this blog-post. However, the lovely Jack Palmer at Leeds has…
ONE. Coercion through signalisation and dressage In Discipline and Punish, Foucault writes of emergent military tactics focused upon the co-operation and the accumulation and co-ordination of co-operative, productive forces that Marx sees inside the factory. Hence, the need to find…
On Monday 30 June, I’m presenting in Leeds at the Building Sustainable Societies, Sustainable Education conference. I’m speaking about Social sustainability, mass intellectuality and the idea of the University. Abstract This presentation considers the interconnections between critical pedagogy and the…
This is a long-read, at over 5,400 words. Why not read and listen to this lovely Frankie Knuckles’ Boiler Room set? ONE. On open co-operatives Joss Winn has been writing extensively about the idea of “open co-operatives” (here and here) with…
Our concrete/abstract alienation In his Education After Auschwitz, Adorno wrote (p. 6) that People who blindly slot themselves into the collective already make themselves into something like inert material, extinguish themselves as self-determined beings. With this comes the willingness to…