The Student as Producer book I am writing ends with a discussion of the co-operative university and the revolutionary teaching out of which it is derived, not as a new type of independent institution but as a form of political settlement.
The theory and practice of creating a co-operative …
Jacques Ranciere might be the epitome of a revolutionary teacher. The book I am writing, Student as Producer: how do revolutionary teachers teach? provides a symptomatic reading of some of Ranciere’s major works to reveal the nature of Ranciere’s revolutionary appeal. A symptomatic reading is a type of revolutionary science, …
Walter Benjamin (1892 – 1940) is a central presence in the forthcoming book, Student as Producer: how do revolutionary teachers teach? Benjamin was a German political philosopher and cultural theorist with a compendium of interests, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, history and education. He was part of a group known …
Ana Dinerstein, John Holloway and me.
These are remarks I made to introduce John Holloway before he gave his paper:
I am delighted to welcome John Holloway to the University of Lincoln to present his paper: ‘Wealth-in-Against-and-Beyond Value’. Thank you to John for coming and for all of …
I gave a keynote lecture recently to the Marx and Philosophy Society Annual Conference. The title of my talk was Critical Theory as a Critique of Labour, ft. academic work; or, how do revolutionary teachers teach? One of the questions asked was what is the difference between my version …
I am continuing to work on my book Student as Producer: How Do Revolutionary Teachers Teach? The content is being brought up to date to include the participation of students and young people in the 2017 UK election, and research undertaken at the University of Mondragon in the Basque …
I was asked to be part of a panel at the University of Gloucestershire looking at the future of higher education, with a focus on sustainability. Each of the panel members had to make a five minute presentation on their position with regard to sustainability and higher education. Please …
I was asked to contribute to a forthcoming publication called ‘Dangerous Words’. The purpose of the book is to uncover the ways in which language works as a form of repression but retains the capacity for critical liberation. I chose to write about the word ‘stammer’. Below is a first …
I was recently invited to give a keynote presentation about Student as Producer to a conference at a college in England. A condition of the invitation was that I sign a document agreeing with the proposition that the principles of democracy, liberty and religious tolerance are based on fundamental British …
John Holloway will be presenting his latest work ‘Reading Capital: wealth in-against-and-beyond value’ at the University of Lincoln, England, on 16th of June, 1 – 4pm in Room MB1012.
John’s reading and writings on Marxist social theory are highly influential as a way of rethinking Marx in terms of ‘Change …
Please see abstract below for a paper, Pedagogy of Hate, to be published in a forthcoming edition of Policy Futures in Education, and this link to a pre-print version of the paper.
Abstract
Based on an extended review of Peter McLaren’s ‘Pedagogy of Insurrection: from Resurrection to Revolution’ …
The purpose of this research is to reveal the ways in which the social theory of Karl Marx has been taught in Anglophone Universities. The research will explore this issue starting from the emergence of Marx’s social theory as an academic subject in the twentieth century to the present day. …
This is the abstract for a paper I am giving at Crossing Borders conference at the University of the Aegean, Lesbos, Greece, 7-10th, July
The refugee crisis is not merely the result of the policies of neocolonial and authoritarian governments, but is a crisis of the nation-state itself as the …
I have been invited to speak as part of roundtable discussion about the effects of the Teaching Excellence Framework and the Research Excellence Framework on teachers, researchers, students and higher education. This discussion is part of a research conference hosted by the Cass School of Education and Communities, at the …
The aim of this research is to explore the possibility of establishing co-operative leadership as a viable organisational form of governance and management for Higher Education. Co-operative leadership is already well established in business enterprises in the UK and around the world (Ridley-Duff and Bull 2016), and has recently been …
This is the updated and revised abstract for my keynote talk at the conference of Association of Law Teachers at Northumbria University, 21st March.
In this talk I will explore the nature of the academic-student relationship with reference to the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, where students are confirmed …
This paper, jointly authored with Gary Saunders, tells the story of how a group of academic staff and students set out to establish a subversive teaching and learning project: Student as Producer, within a neoliberal university in England. Confronted by the intensification of neoliberal education policies and faced with …
This is the text of a lecture I will give to the Marx Research Seminar at the University of Lincoln on 6th of October 2015.
In this lecture I claim that the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883) was not only a science of revolution but also a revolutionary science, constituting …
This is the text of a lecture I gave to the Marx Research Seminar at the University of Lincoln on 6th of October 2015.
In this lecture I claim that the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883) was not only a science of revolution but also a revolutionary science, constituting a …
Abstract
This paper provides an exposition of police state (‘mythic’) violence through the optic of drone culture, in a moment when the police state has declared war against the civilian population. The moment is contextualised during a period of resistance by academics and students against the capitalist university in England …
Abstract
This paper provides an exposition of police state (‘mythic’) violence through the optic of drone culture, in a moment when the police state has declared war against the civilian population. The moment is contextualised during a period of resistance by academics and students against the capitalist university in England …
‘In 1858, not a single person in the world understood the Grundrisse except Marx, and even he had trouble with it. It was an altogether unique and in every sense strange product of the intellect, and must have appeared like the reflections of some man from a distant planet. Emerging …
‘In 1858, not a single person in the world understood the Grundrisse except Marx, and even he had trouble with it. It was an altogether unique and in every sense strange product of the intellect, and must have appeared like the reflections of some man from a distant planet. Emerging …
Magical Realism #lookingforallende @mikeneary
Written by Elisabeth Simbuerger and Mike Neary
Abstract
This paper provides a report on the Chilean student movement, 2011 – 2014, from the perspective of the students themselves, based on the research question: are the student protesters for reform or revolution? The research was done just …
Magical Realism #lookingforallende @mikeneary
Written by Elisabeth Simbuerger and Mike Neary
Abstract
This paper provides a report on the Chilean student movement, 2011 – 2014, from the perspective of the students themselves, based on the main research question: are the student protesters for reform or revolution? The research was done …
Words are torture in my mouth.Words are weapons when we shout: Ya Basta! Enough.
I attended an un-conference on reimagining higher eduction at the Tamera Peace and Research Centre in southern Portugal, 20th- 26th August, 2015. The theme for the event was A Gathering of Kindred Folk – Reimagining Higher …
Words are torture in my mouth.Words are weapons when we shout: Ya Basta! Enough.
I attended an un-conference on higher eduction at the Tamera Peace and Research Centre in southern Portugal, 20th- 26th August, 2015. The theme for the event was A Gathering of Kindred Folk – Reimagining Higher Education…
Abstract
Mike Neary presents a utopian vision for higher education based on the socialist architecture of Cedric Price (1934-2003) and the actor Joan Littlewood (1914-2002), whose work included ‘The University of the Streets’ (1961) and ‘The Thinkbelt’ (1966). These futuristic visions are grounded in a social theory of time …
