My background to dissolution
I always try to do some due diligence in relation to the things that I write and the books that I publish. My latest book, The Dissolution of the Universities, emerged from reading over a number of years about the…
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The Dissolution of the Universities: 24 June
My new book with MayFly Books is published next Wednesday, 24 June. The book begins from the premise that: The University is in crisis because it is the crisis. The argument works with one of the key questions raised by…
New book: The Dissolution of the Universities
I have just submitted the final draft for a monograph with MayFly Books. The title is The Dissolution of the Universities. This book was written in the shadow of Gaza. It forms one strand of my grieving and mourning the…
Generative AI and re-weaving a pedagogical horizon of social possibility
I have a new article out in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. It is entitled Generative AI and re-weaving a pedagogical horizon of social possibility. This is my contribution to a Thematic Series on Higher Education Futures at…
New book project: Beyond University Abolition
I have agreed a new book project with MayFly Books. Having worked with MayFly for my previous monograph, The Hopeless University in 2021, the ethos underpinning this publisher aligns with my own democratic and horizontal approach. I feel that the…
Weaving other worlds with, against and beyond Marx
Back in December 2021 I began working with Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), on a Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education. We hope that the Handbook…
Online seminar and slides: on alienation, hopelessness and the abolition of the University
On Wednesday October 5th, 2022, at 15-18.00 (EEST) and 13-16.00 (BST), I’ll be facilitating an online session on: “The Alienated academic and the Hopeless University with Professor Richard Hall” My slides are appended below and available on my Slideshare, with…
Decolonising Research Ethics
Earlier I generated a presentation on decolonising research ethics, for the Decolonising the STEM Curriculum working group, being led by Lara Lalemi a PhD candidate at Bristol, working in Chemistry. Lara is part of the Creative Tuition Collective, which offers…
There is no way out but through
At a couple of recent discussion events around The Hopeless University, I have been asked what is to be done? For a variety of reasons, I didn’t give the answers that I perhaps might have done. Instead, I pushed the…
Submitted: The hopeless University
I have finally submitted my manuscript for The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History. I blogged about my initial proposal here, and spoke about it on this podcast. It builds upon this article from…