enough is enough
I am tired. In my heart and in my bones. I have been trying to sit with George Floyd, and to understand how to be in this world. It has felt beyond important to contact my black peers, colleagues and…
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Praktyka Teoretyczna: Has the University become surplus to requirements?
With Krystian Szadkowski from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, I am working on an article for a Special Issue of Praktyka Teoretyczna on Latency of the crisis: globalization, subjectivity, and resistance. Our proposed article is entitled: Has the University become…
Notes on pandemic and the proletarianisation of academic labour
NB. this is not a blog-post. It is an essay. It is too long, so probably best not reading it. Do something else, less boring instead. There is a PDF version here. ONE. The political economy of transition and separation…
DMU Critical University Studies Reading Group
With Rosi Smith in Education and James Evans in Strategic Planning at DMU, I am planning to kick-start a Critical University Studies Reading Group at DMU. The first meeting will be 12.30-13.30 on Wednesday 25th March, in Hugh Aston 1.47.…
Episode 8: in which I blather on about hopeless professors and abject universities
It’s been a while – my energy has been elsewhere, caring for my Nan (102!), reading Hegel, thinking about dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and philosophy and science, and trying to get my head around the next book project (The…
Re-engineering Education: the University as Anxiety Machine
Next Tuesday I’m speaking at the Safeguarding Students: Addressing Mental Health Needs Conference. My slides are available below, and from Slideshare. The intention is to frame this around: resources on academic ill-being; writing about weltschmerz; writing about hopelessness; and work…
Special issue: Impacts of neoliberal policy on the lived experiences of primary school communities
The introduction to the Special issue: Impacts of neoliberal policy on the lived experiences of primary school communities, has been published online first by Power and Education. I co-edited the SI with my compadre Mark Pulsford. The SI as a…
the new politics of education: radical visions for further and higher education
Next Tuesday, 24 September, I’m chairing a discussion at the Labour Party Conference Fringe. The session is a joint UCU and Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) event that emerges from some work that I undertook with Sol Gamsu…
radical pedagogies livestream
Tomorrow, Thursday 19 September, De Montfort University is hosting “Radical Pedagogies: Macpherson 20 Years On”. The main focus of the event will be on how radical pedagogies can be used to highlight and address issues relating to race and institutional…
a dialogue on issues in higher education: authoritarianism; neoliberalism; and technocracy
The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) invites a dialogue on issues in higher education involving the audit culture, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and technocracy. These issues are addressed in a special issue of Social Epistemology (33 (4): 2019), “Neoliberalism, Technocracy…