#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
On June 14th, 2023, I presented an Ends of Knowledge reading group and seminar. The blurb for the event is pasted below, and you can sign-up via Eventbrite. But I wouldn’t. That time has passed. But the slides are appended…
I’m presenting on Ill-being and the University, at the NNMHR Congress 2021: Medical Humanities: In(Visibility) My abstract and slides are appended below. My work will build upon some thoughts in my forthcoming book on The Hopeless University, connected to work on the…
“What if things are going to be absolutely fine?” Me to myself, sometime towards the end of therapy, after years of asking “are we okay?” Sticker on street furniture near the Pompidou Centre. It took me a while to…
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…
Elsewhere, I write: it is meaningless for me to separate out my work inside and outside the University from the work I continue to undertake on myself. It is meaningless for me to separate out my labour as something unique…
Over on WonkHE I’ve just had a piece published on academic ill-health, which touches on some issues I have raised previously about anxiety, the University as an anxiety machine, overwork and alienation. It complements these things I have previously written about academic…
Do you want to be afraid? Do you want to be afraid? For life in the cage where courage’s mate runs deep in the wake For the scariest things are not half as enslaved Sufjan Stevens, Impossible Soul. I came…
(It might be over soon, two two) Where you gonna look for confirmation? And if it’s ever gonna happen So as I’m standing at the station It might be over soon Bon Iver. 2016. 22 (OVER S∞∞N) Academia can be a…
I have three things recently published or forthcoming that are about academic labour and its relationship to society. These pick-up on two themes that have been increasingly important to me: first, academic alienation and anxiety, or the idea that the…
With Kate Bowles, I have an article coming out in volume 28 of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, entitled: Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety The article looks at the psychological impacts on academics…