#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
“Openness is today a powerful cult, a religion with its own dogmas.” So writes Evgeny Morozov, who goes on to state that: This fascination with “openness” stems mostly from the success of open-source software, publicly accessible computer code that anyone…
I: on social domination In his Critical Social Theory and the Contemporary World, Moishe Postone argues that: history, grasped as the unfolding of an immanent necessity, should be understood as delineating a form of unfreedom. That form of unfreedom is…
In a post on Globalisation and the University, I picked up on William Robinson’s work on the mechanisms by which a transnational capitalist class, acting through a transnational state apparatus, and supported by a neoliberal political society, hatched from within…
I: on globalisation In his Globalization: nine theses on our epoch, William Robinson argues that “activists and scholars have tended to underestimate the systemic nature of the changes involved in globalisation, which is redefining all the fundamental reference points of…
It is interesting that the drive to MOOC-ify both the forms of (higher) education and the idea of pedagogy, has quickly forked to the idea of a Bill of Rights for Learners. Downes has already noted that “if you ask…
I was asked to provide a prediction for HE policy in 2013. Then nothing happened. So I thought I’d post my predictions here. This is what I wrote… “I know nothing about policy. All I know is activism as a…
I I’ve been trying to develop an argument that the development of innovations like MOOCs, learning analytics, personal learning networks etc. are a form of structural adjustment of higher education. In previous posts I have argued that MOOCs and other…
In the Economic and Social Manuscripts Marx described how by developing the body of the factory, or machinery organised into a system with labour subsumed under that system, capitalists worked: to annex labour-power inside machinery that freed them from the…
I Mike Neary, in a recent article on Teaching Politically, quotes the Joint Declaration of the Knowledge Liberation Front that emerged from a meeting in Paris in 2011. The Declaration points out the struggle against the financialisation and corporatisation of…
This year I have written increasingly about the following issues. The mechanisms through which higher education as a previously socialised or social good has been marketised, in order that value can be extracted from it. The mechanisms that inscribe the…