#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I’m presenting two linked papers on higher education/the assault on public education in the UK. I’ll blog what I plan to say here, and link to my slideshare. The first presentation is at Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics,…
The Cambridge Mathematician, Tim Gower, has highlighted a campaign against the publisher Reed Elsevier for the tripartite crimes of: high pricing; bundling, which pushes what Gower hints are inappropriate or poor quality journals with those that are good; “ruthless” behaviour…
I’ve written about mobiles before, and you can read that stuff here. I’ve written about tech-determinism before, in particular in a post here. The issues I am trying to reflect on are part of a critique of technology inside capitalist…
I The rule of money as the prime motive force in UK higher education after the White Paper of 2010 led Natalie Fenton to write that “The brutal enforcement of market principles into every aspect of higher education is a…
These are my notes from today’s Home Affairs Select Committee conference on the Roots to Violent Radicalisation, held at De Montfort University. The highlight of the day was attending the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s award of an honorary doctorate. Along with…
On Tuesday 13 December De Montfort University will be hosting the Roots of Violent Radicalisation Conference, which has been organised by the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee. I will be speaking in the workshop on how Universities can best counter…
This afternoon I am speaking at a DMU-hosted event called: THE ASSAULT ON UNIVERSITIES: Privatisation, Secrecy and the Future of Higher Education, which is being chaired by Stuart Price. My argument will focus on 4 points. 1. That our existence…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 14 October 2011 Some matters arising from Mobility Shifts and from yesterday’s student-as-producer seminar at CUNY. How do we critique formalised education as an ideological apparatus of the state-for-capital? Are we interested in transition…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 15 October 2011 These are my notes from yesterday’s sessions on cognitive capitalism, the University as knowledge factory and alternatives to higher education, from Mobility Shifts. I’ve also posted my tweets from a student…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 16 November 2011 I kept the faith and I kept voting/Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand/For theirs is a land with a wall around it/ And mine is a faith…