Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues (MERD) - Seminar XVII



MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES (MERD) – SEMINAR XVII

Neoliberalism in Crisis? Current Education Issues and Responses

Speakers include:
Stephen Ball
Nick Grant
Tristan McCowan
Spyros Themelis

22nd January 2014
10-4pm
University of East London
The Cass School of Education
Stratford Campus
Room ED2.04.

All welcome, but RSVP to Veronica Burton: v.a.burton@uel.ac.uk

Co-convenors: Tony Green and Alpesh Maisuria

Please circulate

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Marx, Bourdieu and Education

MARX, BOURDIEU AND EDUCATION

A Seminar at the University of East London
6th November 2013, 4.00-6.00pm
University of East London
The Cass School of Education
UEL Stratford Campus
Room ED2.04.

Two papers will be presented:

On the relations between Marx and Bourdieu – by Professor Donald Broady, Uppsala University, Sweden

Capitals and strategies in the space of upper secondary and higher education: The case of Sweden – by Tobias Dalberg, Uppsala University, Sweden

RSVP: Veronica Burton: v.a.burton@uel.ac.uk

Convenor: Alpesh Maisuria

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  
'Cheerful Sin' – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Nihilist Optimism

NIHILIST OPTIMISM

A new blog from Stevphen Shukaitis


I'll be posting various ramblings and writings about cultural politics, class composition, and various other anarcho-autonomous things.

Hopefully some of them will be interesting to you.
Cheers
Stevphen

Here's a few things that have been posted already:

Shit, Violence, Love, and Art (Interviewing Ubermorgen.com): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/shit-violence-love-and-art-interviewing.html

Work, It’s the Sound of the Police (some good old fashioned anti-work ranting): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/work-its-sound-of-police.html

Fragment on Comparative Decomposition (arguing for greater focus on dynamics of class decomposition): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/fragment-on-comparative-decomposition.html

What Are You Reading For? Modes of Critique, Modes of Production (thoughts on Bill Hicks, labor, education, network culture): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/what-are-you-reading-for-modes-of.html

Recomposing precarity (Notes on the laboured politics of class composition): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/recomposing-precarity-notes-on-laboured.html

Speaking Code to Power (review of Geoff Cox's new book): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/speaking-code-to-power.html

Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations (on combining psychogeography and workers' inquiry): http://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/metropolitan-strategies.html

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  
'Cheerful Sin' – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

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Conference on Equity and Social Justice 2014

CONFERENCE ON EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 2014
Conference Theme: Social Justice Education Out of Bounds: New Frameworks and Alliances
March 1, 2014 – Sheraton Syracuse University Conference Center
Proposal Deadline: November 9, 2013
Acceptance Notification: December 13, 2013
Registration Will Open: January 15, 2014
Conference Directors:
Dr. Brad Porfilio, Lewis University; Derek Ford, Syracuse University; Dr. Julie Gorlewski, SUNY New Paltz; Dr. David Gorlewski, D’Youville College
With support by: Syracuse University School of Education; Cultural Foundations of Education

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  
'Cheerful Sin' – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Historical Materialism Tenth Annual Conference - Registration

HISTORICAL MATERIALISM TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - REGISTRATION

Online registration for HM London 2013 Conference now available

The amounts are suggested voluntary donations.

Those with financial issues should contact us at: historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk

Registration: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual10/register

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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Nanopolitics: An Evening of Bodies and Books

NANOPOLITICS: AN EVENING OF BODIES AND BOOKS

Nanopolitics, exhaustion, biopolitics: an evening of bodies and books
London, October 9th 7pm @ no.w.here: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk
Top Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG

This evening will present an encounter of three lines of thought and practice relating to politics, bodies, life, the social and the common. Doing so, we attempt to think across conceptions and realities of micro, nano and biopolitics. Asking what it is that these dimensions may hold in common, what distinguishes them, and what they may learn from each other, we propose three short presentations followed by an open discussion.

First up is the handbook by the nanopolitics group from London, published with Minor Compositions this fall: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=590. Playfully sketching out the term ‘nanopolitics’, this handbook departs from bodies and their encounters in investigating the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity, precarity and collaboration. This book, packed with excercises and tools for action draws on social movements, grassroots organizing, dance, theatre and bodywork. As the hosts of this evening, the nanopolitics group will propose some ways of activating their handbook, which tries to think politics with and through the body.

Following a similar line of research, Peter Pal Pelbart and Akseli Virtanen will then share some tools they are developing through their n-1 editorial project, as well as in their respective works: http://n-1publications.org. N-1 editions has recently emerged across Brazil and Finland and refers to the necessity to create new organizational ideas and forms – to which “one” (leader, value, idea, principle, community, goal) belongs only as subtracted. They say they don’t organize to make the series, but make the series to organize. To organize at n-1.

Peter Pelbart will notably draw on his work with the Ueinzz theatre company in Sao Paolo, and on his book ‘Cartographies of exhaustion’, where he asks what makes us so exhausted today, and proposes a collective open-ended cartography that identifies breakage points where other images, visions, notions, are extracted from the hither side of our current biopolitical nihilism.

Akseli Virtanen will draw on his work towards ‘A critique of biopolitical economy’ (forthcoming) as well as his ‘Dictionary of New Work: A Map to Precarious Life’ (2006) in reflecting on experiments on
coming forms of politics and organization, among them the Robin Hood contra-investment bank of the precariat (http://rhmam.org).

We would love to invite you for an open discussion to tie together some threads regarding these fields of investigation and practice, to see what useful insights we might draw from thinking across the nano, micro and biopolitical.

All welcome!
Unfortunately the building is not wheelchair accessible.

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo (new remix, and new video, 2012)  
'Cheerful Sin' – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

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Greening the Academy

Samuel Day Fassbinder
GREENING THE ACADEMY: ECOPEDAGOGY THROUGH THE LIBERAL ARTS

Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy through the liberal arts
Sense Publishers
2012 - 254 pages
Winner! 2013 Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
ISBN Paperback: 9789462090996 ($ 54.00)
ISBN Hardcover: 9789462091009 ($ 99.00)

This is the academic Age of the Neoliberal Arts. Campuses—as places characterized by democratic debate and controversy, wide ranges of opinion typical of vibrant public spheres, and service to the larger society—are everywhere being creativelydestroyed in order to accord with market and military models befitting the academic-industrial complex.
While it has become increasingly clear that facilitating the sustainability movement is the great 21st century educational challenge at hand, this book asserts that it is both a dangerous and criminal development today that sustainability in higher education has come to be defined by the complex-friendly “green campus” initiatives of science, technology, engineering and management programs.
By contrast, Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts takes the standpoints of those working for environmental and ecological justice in order to critique the unsustainable disciplinary limitations within the humanities and social sciences, as well as provide tactical reconstructive openings toward an empowered liberal arts for sustainability.
Greening the Academy thus hopes to speak back with a collective demand that sustainability education be defined as a critical and moral vocation comprised of the diverse types of humanistic study that will benefit the well-being of our emerging planetary community and its numerous common locales.
Praise for this book:
“Critical, crucial, and challenging, this book initiates a dialogue essential to the survival of our planet and all the species on it, including our own. Ignored for far too long by leaders of the major social institutions around the world, this book poses the question of whether the academy will belatedly tackle the urgent policies and actions necessary to ameliorate the ecological destruction wrought by predatory capitalism. University Centers for Teaching and Learning should use this book to generate meaningful discussions of curriculum transformation wherever possible.” -- Dr. Julie Andrzejewski, Co-Director, Social Responsibility Masters Program, St. Cloud State University
“Breaks through barriers that continue to enervate higher education’s contribution to environmental education and ecological justice. By connecting radical “cognitive praxis” and authentic Indigenous perspectives to a variety of relevant topics, it offers educators motivation and maps for helping us all regain our lost balance before it is too late.” -- Four Arrows, Editor of Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
“This is an important and urgent book that represents a landmark for higher education. It is a book that must be heeded, and, more importantly acted upon.” -- Dr. Peter McLaren, Author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution


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Paperback | Hardcover

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Class Struggle in Education

Dave Hill
CLASS STRUGGLE AND EDUCATION

Class Struggle and Education: Neoliberalism, (Neo)-conservatism, and the Capitalist Assault on Public Education

DAVE HILL in Critical Education (Vol. 4 No.3, 2013)

In this article I examine the nexus, the mutually reinforcing connection between neoliberal and neoconservative ideology and social and political forces, and variation between countries such as Britain, the USA and Turkey. This analysis is then applied in particular to neoliberal/ neoconservative education `reform’ in England, focusing on marketisation, high-stakes testing, privatization and pre-privatisation, and the increased surveillance of teachers as a result of new public managerialism in education, as reinforced and enforced by the school inspection system. These effects are then related to the lived work experiences of specific teachers, using their own word. I conclude the article by examining and calling for resistance, for teachers and critical education workers to educate, agitate and organize in various arenas, and to consider the importance of political programme- in particular to consider the utility of the transitional programme as advanced by Trotsky – Dave Hill


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