And then there were four. It is great to have Eliza Jane Darling join us at ZA, and she has started with her first essay dealing with the UK budget cuts, neoliberalism, the political economy of academia, and the transformation of higher education in Britain. As the days pass changes will be made to the… [Read more…]
November 14, 2010 by Eliza Jane Darling
The evangelical neoliberalism which erupted in the US House of Representatives in 2008 and spread like the mange to the UK House of Commons is coming soon to an English university near you. The free market rapture comes courtesy of a man so dreadfully incompetent he couldn’t even be trusted to run BP: Edmund John… [Read more…]
November 14, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
Editorial note: In Encircling Empire Report #3, I featured an article from an exciting Australian magazine, Arena, along with extended extracts, authored by Barry Morris and Andrew Lattas. That article was “Embedded Anthropology and the Intervention.” Since then I was contacted by one of the central figures criticized in their article, anthropologist Francesca Merlan, inquiring… [Read more…]
November 12, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
A short selection of Wikileaks-related articles from the past week or so that range from the amusing to the distressing: Who is more popular than Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and the Chilean miners combined? And leading in votes for TIME Magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year award, ahead of Lady Gaga, and Jon Stewart and… [Read more…]
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November 16, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
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