#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
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…
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…
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…
It looks likely that my next monograph, The hopeless university: intellectual work at the end of the end of history will be out with MayFly Books in early May. There is a synopsis here. There is a podcast here. I…
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…
In other, exciting news, I have agreed with Mayfly books, based in Leicester, to produce a new monograph on academic life. Mayfly are extending their work on critical university studies, and have also published Ansgar Allen’s The Cynical Educator and…
In June 2009, a group of people who loosely knew each other, or were connected through emergent social networks and individuals, gathered for discussion about the intersection of education and digital technology. This collective, known as the ‘52group’, gathered from…
You have to know what’s wrong before you can find what’s right Toni Morrison. Song of Solomon. as far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of…
The traditional university produces knowledge as distinct from society, and does not consider the production of truth is itself a social, practical and material activity. In conceiving critical knowledge in the abstract, the University denies the place of social, practical…