#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I In analyses of the circuits and cycles of capitalism, interpretations of crises underpin our individual and collective responses to them. In classical interpretations, overproduction/under-consumption or the tendency of the rate of profit to fall have dominated discussions of what…
I presented earlier today at the London Festival of Education. I blogged what I intended to say here. What I wish I had said is given below. FIRST. On care: one might define care as a positive perception of assistance…
In a posting on Pearson and the privatisation of academic labour I noted that the acceleration of privatisation inside and against the higher education sector was re-structuring universities as: an architecture is opened-up that threatens the public funding, regulation and…
I am speaking on a panel at the London Festival of Education on Saturday 17 November, 2012. The panel is covering the question Do Universities Care Enough About Students? I take care to mean a positive perception of assistance that…
PART ONE: on oil and capitalism In a paper on Carbon Democracy, Tim Mitchell, historian at Columbia University argues that the production and maintenance of democracy, and the bodies that encompass civil and political society in the global North, have…
In his 1979 review of EP Thompson’s Poverty of Theory, Alex Callinicos notes that The commitment to the self-emancipation of the working class is married within it to the careful study of the laws of motion of capitalism and to…
An informal reading group met last night to discuss Niall Ferguson’s Reith Lectures. The general consensus was that the lectures represent a crisis of hegemonic neoliberalism, with a picture being created of the structures of political and civil society being…
Economic forecast soothe our dereliction Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine Carried away with useless advertising dreams Blinding children, life as autonotomes Manic Street Preachers. 1992. Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds. The 2012 UCISA survey on TEL leaves me with some matters arising…
I In an excellent article on Technology, Distribution and the Rate of Profit in the US Economy: Understanding the Current Crisis, Basu and Vasudevan scope the connections between falling capital productivity, the tendency of the rate of profit to fall,…
I I am becoming more interested in the transition or transformation of academic labour inside an increasingly neoliberal university, and the ways in which technology is used to quicken that transition and discipline that labour. In this I am reminded…