by kspence | Feb 24, 2014 | Neoliberalism |
Last week a New York Times columnist wrote a column criticizing professors for shirking their responsibility to the public by staying put within the Academy. American journalism is and for most of the 20th and 21st century has been reliant on advertising revenue. But...
by kspence | Feb 12, 2014 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism
Stuart Hall passed away on February 10, 2014 at the age of 81. Hall was one of the first theorists to understand the neoliberal turn, bearing witness to Margaret Thatcher’s brutal rule as well as the Left’s accommodation to that rule in the seventies. He...
by kspence | Feb 10, 2014 | Neoliberalism
One of the things I promised I’d do less this year was work and live on Facebook. It sucks and profits off my productivity. With that said though there are people I’m in touch with I wouldn’t be in touch with without it, there are people I know that...
by kspence | Feb 3, 2014 | Education, Neoliberalism, Resistance |
On Martin Luther King Day in Ann Arbor, black University of Michigan students issued seven demands to university officials: We demand the University to give us an equal opportunity to implement change. The change that complete restoration of the BSU’s purchasing power...
by kspence | Jan 14, 2014 | Black Family, Education, Neoliberalism
A video of a toddler cursing out his relatives has made the rounds over the past few weeks, generating a moral panic that found the toddler (briefly) separated from his mother. The video, first posted by the toddler’s uncle but then REposted by the Omaha Police...
by kspence | Nov 12, 2013 | Education, Neoliberalism |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unbowed/10819896453/ I’ve been on the road a lot–two weeks ago I was in Boston, last week I was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the next week I’ll be in Detroit and DC. I haven’t gotten much writing done over this time,...
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