Category: Blog
Why you’re never working to contract
Knowing neoliberalism
Existing while female
Area Y: The Necropolitics of Post-Socialism
Writing our way out of neoliberalism? For an ecology of publishing
Life or business as usual? Lessons of the USS strike
I am a precarious, foreign, early career researcher. Why should I be striking?
The paradox of resistance: critique, neoliberalism, and the limits of performativity
Is there such a thing as ‘centrist’ higher education policy?
Between legitimation and imagination: epistemic attachment, ontological bias, and thinking about the future
The biopolitics of higher education, or: what’s the problem with two-year degrees?
If on a winter’s night a government: a tale of universities and the state with some reference to present circumstances
Why is it more difficult to imagine the end of universities than the end of capitalism, or: is the crisis of the university in fact a crisis of imagination?
A fridge of one’s own
The poverty of student experience
Theory as practice: for a politics of social theory, or how to get out of the theory zoo
Universities, neoliberalisation, and the (im)possibility of critique
Zygmunt Bauman and the sociologies of end times
Boundaries and barbarians: ontological (in)security and the [cyber?] war on universities
On ‘Denial’: or, the uncanny similarity between Holocaust and mansplaining
Against academic labour: foraging in the wildlands of digital capitalism
We are all postliberals now: teaching Popper in the era of post-truth politics
One more time with [structures of] feeling: anxiety, labour, and social critique in/of the neoliberal academia
All the feels
Out of place? On Pokémon, foxes, and critical cultural political economy
Do we need academic celebrities?
What after Brexit? We don’t know, and if we did, we wouldn’t dare say
