Ken Doctor – Transforming the company’s DNA shared CC by Fräulein Schiller A quick follow-up to my post from earlier this week, which among other things referenced Rupert Murdoch’s entry into the education market… The comments in response were outstanding, and if you haven’t already I suggest you check them out. It’s one of those […]
Read more "Scorched"Higher education is explicitly a commodity now. It is explicitly open to market forces and for-profiteering. This exposes it to risk, hedging, venture capitalism, and the treadmill of competition. This means that all of the social relationships we develop and nurture within higher education are subject to the rule of money. There is no outside […]
Read more "Welcome to the all-you-can-burn buffet"There’s the relentless global economic meltdown, the lack of accountability, and the injustice of who is bearing the burden of financial crime and negligence. Then there’s steady degradation of the internet, from a space of potential liberation to one which feels more controlled and corporatized by the day… Those seem like two fairly distinct issues, […]
Read more "“recommended for viewing with a helmet”"untitled shared CC by Foxtongue Gaston Gordillo goes deep: The Vancouver riots were a moment of rupture of the sanitized image that our local elites cultivate about Vancouver The Beautiful as a global brand. The corporate media lost control of the huge collective energies it contributed to releasing on the streets by glorifying sports as […]
Read more "Burn!"The game over, we were coming to grips with a disappointing ending to what had been a marvellous season for fans of Vancouver Canucks hockey. Consoling beverages were fixed, arguments on who had failed to perform (in this series, pretty much every Canuck, alas) were waged… and a few uncomfortable jokes about a reprise of […]
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