Posts tagged ‘Education’
A is for apocalypse
by Matthew Charles / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Review
David J. Blacker, The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame , Zero Books, Winchester and Washington DC, 2013. 319 pp., £15.99 pb., 978 1 78099 578 6.
Amidst the recent flood of lachrymose reports on the neoliberal assault upon education, this book stands out for its unflinching survey of the extent of the …
Subscriber Offer on The Great University Gamble
by Radical Philosophy / 2013 / Web Content
Radical Philosophy and independent progressive publisher Pluto Press are happy to offer a promotional discount to all our Full subscribers for The Great University Gamble by Andrew McGettigan.
Andrew has been a regular contributor to Radical Philosophy, writing in recent issues on the changes to Higher Education in England and Wales. To celebrate the launch …
Lines in class
The ongoing attack on mass education in England
by Matthew Charles / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Commentary
Andrew McGettigan’s analysis of the financial transformations of higher education (‘Who Let the Dogs Out? The Privatization of Higher Education’, RP 174) is important for comprehending the complexity of the changes universities are undergoing and their implications. As he argues, ‘it is mass higher education in England’ that is now under attack and …
The Right To Protest
by Nina Power / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / News
As Quebec erupts over plans to increase tuition fees by the equivalent of £200, and twelve people (including Professor Joshua Clover) who protested against a campus bank at University of California–Davis begin a trial that could see them imprisoned for eleven years and fined $1 million each, what of the scores of people …
Who let the dogs out?
The privatization of higher education
by Andrew McGettigan / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Commentary
In April last year, I framed my article on ‘New Providers’ in relation to the delay surrounding the publication of the government’s White Paper for Higher Education (HE). That was caused by a combination of factors, but chiefly the need to fix a hole in the proposals for student loan financing; and additional …
Pirate Radical Philosophy
by Gary Hall / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Commentary
Pirate … from the Latin pirata (-ae; pirate)… transliteration of the Greek piratis (pirate; πειρατής) from the verb pirao (make an attempt, try, test, get experience, endeavour, attack; πειράω). … In modern Greek… piragma: teasing [πείραγμα] …pirazo: tease, give trouble [πειράζω].1
Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, …
Of course… however
by Matthew Charles / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Review
Michael Bailey and Des Freedman, eds, The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance, Pluto Press, London, 2011. 200 pp., £14.99 pb., 978 0 74533 191 1.
Matthew Charles
The conceptual poles that orient the collection of essays edited by Des Freedman and Michael Bailey in The Assault on Universities are, …
Student problems (1964)
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy (with an introduction by Warren Montag)
by Louis Althusser / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
What are the theoretical principles of Marxism that should and can come into play in the scientific analysis of the university milieu to which students, along with teachers, research workers and administrators, belong?* Essentially, the Marxist concepts of the technical and social divisions of labour. Marx applied these principles in the analysis of …
Philosophy for children
by Matthew Charles / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article
A well-orchestrated public relations campaign led primarily by educational charity The Philosophy Shop has helped raise the profile of the philosophy for children movement in the UK significantly over the last few years. Whilst The Philosophy Shop has been promoting its ‘Four Rs’ campaign to make ‘Reasoning’ a central feature of the National …
‘New Providers’
The Creation of a Market in Higher Education
by Andrew McGettigan / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Commentary
At the end of 2009, the Labour government commissioned a review panel, led by John Browne, formerly chief executive of the London-based oil and gas multinational BP, to report on the financing of higher education in England. Its basic remit was to devise a funding scheme that would open up more undergraduate degree …
Against Education Cuts
by Nina Power, Escalate and Emily Clifton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / News
Reports from the protests by those campaigning against the cuts to educations, including Nina Power on the centrality of women.
The performative without condition
A university sans appel
by Barbara Cassin and Philippe Büttgen / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / Article
‘Responsibility’ and the homonymy of autonomy
‘Take your time but be quick about it, because you don’t know what awaits you’, said French philosopher Jacques Derrida in 1998 at Stanford.1 Indeed. He would not have expected to be cited like this by Valérie Pécresse, French Minster for Higher Education and Research, in January …
Dossier On Universities
by Vienna Collective, The Middlesex Occupiers and Matthew Charles / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / Article
The University and the Plan: Reflections from Vienna
The immediate causes of the current protests by students, lecturers and academic researchers in Europe are contingent; they are directed at individual educational institutions or administrators, and the demands they make are capable of being met over the short term.* But on a second level, one that …
An aesthetic education against aesthetic education
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project
by Stewart Martin / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Documenta 12ʼs commitment to the question of what is to be done in education is to be welcomed from an institution that has sought to sustain itself as an autonomous cultural realm, a public sphere, in the face of its fabulous state sponsorship and relations to the art market. The articulation of the question in …
Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004
by David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / Obituary
In an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took …
All their play becomes fruitful
The utopian child of Charles Fourier
by Maeve Pearson / RP 115 (Sep/Oct 2002) / Article
The central tenet of Charles Fourierʼs theory was the promise of universal happiness and social unity through a radical revision of manʼs relationship to labour. Vehemently opposed to both the violence of mass insurrection and the hypocrisies and corruption of burgeoning industrial capitalism, he dreamed of a pacific cultural revolution that would emerge …
A is for apocalypse
by Matthew Charles / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / ReviewDavid J. Blacker, The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame , Zero Books, Winchester and Washington DC, 2013. 319 pp., £15.99 pb., 978 1 78099 578 6.
Amidst the recent flood of lachrymose reports on the neoliberal assault upon education, this book stands out for its unflinching survey of the extent of the …
Subscriber Offer on The Great University Gamble
by Radical Philosophy / 2013 / Web ContentRadical Philosophy and independent progressive publisher Pluto Press are happy to offer a promotional discount to all our Full subscribers for The Great University Gamble by Andrew McGettigan.
Andrew has been a regular contributor to Radical Philosophy, writing in recent issues on the changes to Higher Education in England and Wales. To celebrate the launch …
Lines in class
The ongoing attack on mass education in Englandby Matthew Charles / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Commentary
Andrew McGettigan’s analysis of the financial transformations of higher education (‘Who Let the Dogs Out? The Privatization of Higher Education’, RP 174) is important for comprehending the complexity of the changes universities are undergoing and their implications. As he argues, ‘it is mass higher education in England’ that is now under attack and …
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The Right To Protest
by Nina Power / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / NewsAs Quebec erupts over plans to increase tuition fees by the equivalent of £200, and twelve people (including Professor Joshua Clover) who protested against a campus bank at University of California–Davis begin a trial that could see them imprisoned for eleven years and fined $1 million each, what of the scores of people …
Who let the dogs out?
The privatization of higher educationby Andrew McGettigan / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Commentary
In April last year, I framed my article on ‘New Providers’ in relation to the delay surrounding the publication of the government’s White Paper for Higher Education (HE). That was caused by a combination of factors, but chiefly the need to fix a hole in the proposals for student loan financing; and additional …
Pirate Radical Philosophy
by Gary Hall / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / CommentaryPirate … from the Latin pirata (-ae; pirate)… transliteration of the Greek piratis (pirate; πειρατής) from the verb pirao (make an attempt, try, test, get experience, endeavour, attack; πειράω). … In modern Greek… piragma: teasing [πείραγμα] …pirazo: tease, give trouble [πειράζω].1
Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, …
Of course… however
by Matthew Charles / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / ReviewMichael Bailey and Des Freedman, eds, The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance, Pluto Press, London, 2011. 200 pp., £14.99 pb., 978 0 74533 191 1.
Matthew Charles
The conceptual poles that orient the collection of essays edited by Des Freedman and Michael Bailey in The Assault on Universities are, …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160715212755im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Student problems (1964)
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy (with an introduction by Warren Montag)by Louis Althusser / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
What are the theoretical principles of Marxism that should and can come into play in the scientific analysis of the university milieu to which students, along with teachers, research workers and administrators, belong?* Essentially, the Marxist concepts of the technical and social divisions of labour. Marx applied these principles in the analysis of …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160715212755im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Philosophy for children
by Matthew Charles / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / ArticleA well-orchestrated public relations campaign led primarily by educational charity The Philosophy Shop has helped raise the profile of the philosophy for children movement in the UK significantly over the last few years. Whilst The Philosophy Shop has been promoting its ‘Four Rs’ campaign to make ‘Reasoning’ a central feature of the National …
‘New Providers’
The Creation of a Market in Higher Educationby Andrew McGettigan / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Commentary
At the end of 2009, the Labour government commissioned a review panel, led by John Browne, formerly chief executive of the London-based oil and gas multinational BP, to report on the financing of higher education in England. Its basic remit was to devise a funding scheme that would open up more undergraduate degree …
Against Education Cuts
by Nina Power, Escalate and Emily Clifton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / NewsReports from the protests by those campaigning against the cuts to educations, including Nina Power on the centrality of women.
The performative without condition
A university sans appelby Barbara Cassin and Philippe Büttgen / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / Article
‘Responsibility’ and the homonymy of autonomy
‘Take your time but be quick about it, because you don’t know what awaits you’, said French philosopher Jacques Derrida in 1998 at Stanford.1 Indeed. He would not have expected to be cited like this by Valérie Pécresse, French Minster for Higher Education and Research, in January …
Dossier On Universities
by Vienna Collective, The Middlesex Occupiers and Matthew Charles / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / ArticleThe University and the Plan: Reflections from Vienna
The immediate causes of the current protests by students, lecturers and academic researchers in Europe are contingent; they are directed at individual educational institutions or administrators, and the demands they make are capable of being met over the short term.* But on a second level, one that …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160715212755im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
An aesthetic education against aesthetic education
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines projectby Stewart Martin / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Documenta 12ʼs commitment to the question of what is to be done in education is to be welcomed from an institution that has sought to sustain itself as an autonomous cultural realm, a public sphere, in the face of its fabulous state sponsorship and relations to the art market. The articulation of the question in …
Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004
by David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / ObituaryIn an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160715212755im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
All their play becomes fruitful
The utopian child of Charles Fourierby Maeve Pearson / RP 115 (Sep/Oct 2002) / Article
The central tenet of Charles Fourierʼs theory was the promise of universal happiness and social unity through a radical revision of manʼs relationship to labour. Vehemently opposed to both the violence of mass insurrection and the hypocrisies and corruption of burgeoning industrial capitalism, he dreamed of a pacific cultural revolution that would emerge …