Stammering as Dada: Mike Neary and Critical Education

 STAMMERING AS DADA

MIKE NEARY AND CRITICAL EDUCATION

STAMMERING AS DADA: MIKE NEARY AND CRITICAL EDUCATION.

Edited by Stephen Cowden, Joss Winn, and Gary Saunders.

Published by Peter Lang, in the 'New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education' Series, Volume 9.

This book will be available from 11 December 2024.

From the Peter Lang (publishers): https://www.peterlang.com/document/1493241

Available also from Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and !ndigo.

Publisher's Summary:

Mike Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. He died in January 2023, and in the months prior to his death, the editors of this book met with Mike and, with his guidance, worked with him on a collection of his writings. Mike was once asked why he wrote and he responded, “I write for the future” This book gathers some of his key writings to keep alive the critical legacy which Mike’s life and work embodied. It contains a body of work written by Mike on his own, with his close collaborators, as well as contributions written about him. The work gathered here in this book attests to Mike’s lifelong critical engagement with the work of Karl Marx, and as his work shows, this is an engagement on terms which are uniquely his own, reflecting Mike’s unique vision, his deep egalitarianism, his personal warmth, and his critical intellect.

My chapter is: "Value Vortex Weavings: Karl Marx's Social Time, Labour-Power and Education".

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Aphorisms on the Critique of Pedagogy

APHORISMS ON THE CRITIQUE OF PEDAGOGY 

Aphorisms on the Critique of Pedagogy

This is a paper I prepared for the International Congress on Educational Sciences and Effective Practices Conference, Kapadokya University, Nevşehir, Cappadocia, Turkey, 12–17 November 2024.

Preface

(i).    What is presented in this paper is not a critique of critical pedagogy, but a critique of pedagogy itself.

(ii).    Yet this critique is not an idealist, transhistorical, instrumental or analytical philosophical concoction.

(iii).   Rather, it is a critique of pedagogy in its historically capitalist form; or, critique of the specifically capitalist form of pedagogy.

(iv).   All this is undertaken through Marxist science.

It is now available at:

Academia: https://www.academia.edu/125194423/Aphorisms_on_the_Critique_of_Pedagogy

and at: 

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385417744_Aphorisms_on_the_Critique_of_Pedagogy

Glenn Rikowski

Labour-Power-Points

 

LABOUR-POWER-POINTS

This is a paper I presented at the recent Historical Materialism London Conference, SOAS, 2024.

Abstract:

Following a brief outline of labour-power through Marx, Ciccarelli (2021) and my own work, it is argued that the fragmentation of Marxist work on labour-power undermines what is critical for its understanding in contemporary society: the notion that labour-power is a ‘unity of the diverse’ (Marx). In Marxist theory and empirical work today, labour-power as ‘unity’, as a unified social force within humans, is sacrificed to its ‘diversity’. The result is theorisations and empirical research that split the study of labour-power into seemingly competing projects; either as arguments regarding whether the key focus should be on the social production of labour-power through education and training, or the social reproduction of labour-power through the family and domestic labour. This paper argues that labour–power is better viewed through its various diversities that constitute its unity. Each of these diversities is a spectral (but real) point in analysis of labour-power, but its unity blends the pinpointing analysis of its diversities. These labour-power diversities are social forms of its social re/production that are manifested in and through various institutions in capitalist society. In this light, the following diversities of labour-power and their institutional forms can be viewed directly through the work of Marx: the social production of labour-power (e.g. in education and training); its social reproduction 1 (e.g. through the family and domestic labour); social reproduction 2 (e.g. through state pensions, unemployment benefits); maintenance of labourers 1 (e.g. through consumption, food); maintenance of labourers 2 (e.g. through health, and mental health services). These labour-power diversities constitute a web of social forms shaping labour-power in contemporary capitalism. The paper ends by exploring some recent empirical examples illustrating how moving between the spectral points of labour–power and its diversities solidifies their unity in analysis.         

The paper is now available at:

Academia: https://www.academia.edu/124791066/Labour_Power_Points

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384971765_LABOUR-POWER-POINTS

Glenn Rikowski