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book project: The Alienated Academic

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…

Notes on education-as-gaslighting

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…

DMU Research Seminar: Immanence in learning

You are warmly invited to the next DMU IEF (Institute for Education Futures) Research Seminar Title: Immanence in learning Researcher: Jason Eyre Date: 18th January 2017, 4.00 – 5.00pm Location: Hawthorn Building, Room 0.07 Immanence in learning This paper represents…

on world-weariness

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…