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Philosophy for children

by / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article

of philosophy at Liverpool and Keele have forced managerial reversals, whilst the purging of philosophy courses at Middlesex, Greenwich, London Met and, most recently, Northampton continues. It is the context of this broader crisis that demands our attention here, not least because a popular drive towards philosophy may be a symptom either of a revitalization that could spread into higher education or of its regression and eventual expiration. T…


Against Education Cuts

by , and / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / News

…ces have struck many not only as a searing indictment of the philistinism of a government whose members had themselves received a free university education, but also as an inadequate and unsustainable response to the economic crisis. How is reducing university places, making levels of debt so high that they become unattractive and impossible for those not from rich families, and cutting the funding of various subjects going to stimulate the econo…


‘New Providers’

The Creation of a Market in Higher Education


 by / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Commentary

oppinses, make-up artists and homeopaths’, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415584&c=1. 14. See UCU’s briefing, ‘Subprime Education? A Report on the Growth of Private Providers and the Crisis of UK Higher Education’, www.ucu.org.uk/media/pdf/k/l/ucu_subprimeed_briefing_sep10. pdf. 15. www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/12/david-cameron-big-society. 16. www.dta.org.uk/whatsnew/hottopics/communityorganiser…


Lines in class

The ongoing attack on mass education in England


 by / 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 adequately responding to this requires the development of new habits and new forms of thought.1 It…


Universities in crisis

by and / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / News

Education is not for $A£€ Student protests in Germany In November and December 2009 – responding to the signal from Vienna, where the University’s main lecture has was occupied – buildings, lecture theatres and seminar rooms in fifty West German colleages were occupied… Alex Demirovi Violence and the University Sanctuary law in Greece Shortly before one of the demonstrations commemorating the first anniversary of the deat…


‘For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity’, École des hautes études en sciences sociales/Université Paris VIII, February 2011

It’s a struggle


 by / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Conference Report

…on paid to the attacks on the public university. Although the meeting was in one sense a great success, bringing together disparate groups and networking activists across the globe, it was also plagued with a kind of identity crisis that affects many anti-hierarchically organized meetings. Unsure themselves of how much power they should wield, Edu-factory organizers attempted as best they could to navigate the tricky role of being in charge of an…


Pirate Radical Philosophy

by / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Commentary

…d encourage us to go further than merely endeavouring to ‘just say “no”’ to the idea of universities operating as for-profit business in order to serve the economy, and demanding a return to the kind of publicly financed mass education policy that prevailed in the Keynesian era? What if we, too, in our capacity as academics, authors, writers, thinkers and scholars want to resist the continued imposition of a neoliberal political rationality that…


The Chilean winter

by / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Commentary

Since the beginning of 2011, student mobilizations in Chile have occupied the centre of public debate. On the one hand, most of the population, along with most of the political parties currently opposed to Sebastián Piñera’s government, agree on the crisis of secondary and higher education in a country that has been widely praised for fostering democratization and economic prosperity after the dark decades of Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–89). O…


A welfare culture?

Hoggart and Williams in the fifties


 by / RP 077 (May/Jun 1996) / Article

…n of change, and, in the ordinary terms of liberal politics and culture, the word was not inapt. But, looking back from beyond the seventies and eighties, we can see the decade after 1945 as the formative moment of an abiding crisis. The re-balancing of existing class relations in a caste-ridden society and a declining economy, the seeding of new black communities through reverse migration from the colonies, and, pervading all things, the scarcel…


David Cameron’s Tea Party

by / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Commentary

…en gradually narrowing. In the mid-1970s, their vote was lower than 40 per cent for the first time in the postwar era. The revival under Thatcher was fragile, based on between 42 and 44 per cent of the vote. But since the ERM crisis, the Tories have rarely gained support higher than the low 30s. If this secular trend is not halted and reversed, then the Conservative Party’s usefulness to the capitalist class, members of which dominate its leaders…


Alternatives to austerity

The need for a public utility finance system


 by / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Commentary

…welfare. The disease had quite different origins and causes from those that were forecast by the doom-mongers, but the medicine needed for this incapacitating ailment is just the same as before. It is truly astonishing that a crisis caused by the bankers has to be solved at the expense of nurses, teachers, students, pensioners and the unemployed. The bankers are still widely thought to be culpable but few dare to defy the money markets and intern…


The Right To Protest

by / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / News

…marches, TUC demonstrations or following the riots, is unsurprising at a time when the ruling classes are doing their best to consolidate their power by explicitly forcing others to shoulder the economic and moral blame for a crisis those others did not create. Recent proposals to cut sections of the police force surprised some who remembered Thatcher’s improvement of police pay and conditions in the months before she called upon them to attack t…


Eduction for Industry

by / RP 019 (Spring 1978) / Article

table response to this opening of ‘the great debate’ has been horror at the conception of education involved in the criticism, though the reaction has for some been tempered by acknowledgement of our dire economic crisis and of society’s right, as paying the piper, at least to some extent to call the tune. We should not, it seems to have been felt, dig in our heels too stubbornly against the proposed changes, provided they are r…


Of course… however

by / 2012 / Web Content

mulations of higher education must be confronted, as both indicative of a deliberate, attractive and by no means ineffective political strategy, and a framing and fixing of the debate at the level of ideology critique and the crisis of a democratic political culture that might itself be problematic. The real risk of desiring to build a ‘counterculture’ defending the ideals of classical liberalism on the model of Wendy Brown’s ‘counter-rationality…


Claire Fontaine

Giving shape to painful things


 by , and / RP 175 (Sep/Oct 2012) / Interview

…xplicitly through the monopoly of violence of the police. Maybe this is something that we all know without knowing it, and seeing it on a screen can awaken this thought. AC&RC The trope of the readymade artist diagnoses a crisis of authenticity permeating the artworld. Yet you seem to remain optimistic about this moment. Is there a new possibility for communization, and, if so, does it emerge from the crisis of subjectivities named by the rea…


A differing shade of green

by / 2013 / Web Content

Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013. 224 pp., £20.50 hb., 978 0 23115 828 2. This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others – one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg – Parr analyses the crisis in the context o…


Inside a charging bull

Iceland, one year on


 by / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / Commentary

…s would get the leftovers at best. With the legislation, known among legislators as the ‘f**k-theforeigners law’,5 the right-wing government made sure that local capitalists would not bear an unnecessarily hefty burden of the crisis, buying them out, as one journalist put it, of any subsequent social upheaval. The emergency legislation has mostly remained beyond debate and no one has so far had to justify the policy behind it. If the matter momen…


What is Pussy Riot’s ‘Idea’?

What is Pussy Riot’s ‘Idea’?


 by / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Commentary

…ia and Internet culture arose under post-Soviet conditions as a reaction to the total depoliticization of society after a series of economic, social and ecological catastrophes: the dissolution of the USSR, the constitutional crisis and the attack on the White House in 1993, economic ‘shock therapy’, the default of 1998, two Chechen wars, and the blowing up of houses and an anti-terrorist paranoia that became a part of daily life. These catastrop…


New Radical Philosophy Website

by / 2011 / Web Content

…cally-informed commentaries on contemporary social and political issues, those problematic disciplinary, pedagogical and social divisions remain and will continue to be challenged by those writing in this journal. The current crisis in education and the ongoing neoliberal transformation of higher education has radicalized a new generation of students who are calling into question and demanding changes to those same institutional divisions and the…


Colin Ward, 1924–2010

The incremental anarchist


by / RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) / Obituary

…rd’s original conception of the garden city. Ward edited a version of Kropotkin’s Fields, Factories and Workshops for Freedom Press in 1975 with commentary on what he saw as its contemporary relevance in the new era of energy crisis and stagflation. The vision is of a society in which local communities are the prime political unit and in which economic activity is localized around a mix of agricultural/ horticultural and industrial production. Th…