Category Archives: Academic life

University of Chile attacked with Tear Gas and Water Cannon

by michaelc Posted on 14 June 2013

It doesn’t only happen in Turkey. Yesterday, while filming in Santiago, I had my first experience of tear gas. I went to film the latest student protest march against the heavily privatised education system which is a heritage of the … Continue reading →

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Higher Education is not a commodity

by michaelc Posted on 11 June 2013

The following interview, done by email, originally appeared on EvoLLLution. 1. Would you say higher education is a commodity, or not? Absolutely not; and not just higher education, but education at any and every level. Education is a process of … Continue reading →

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Pointless Obstacles

by michaelc Posted on 11 April 2013

If the death of one Margaret Thatcher has served to remind us that the present crisis has its roots back in the 80s on her watch, one of things that Thatcherism was responsible for was the corruption of the value … Continue reading →

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Cuba in Aberystwyth

by michaelc Posted on 23 March 2013

Welsh hills covered in snow as the train snakes across country on the way back from Aberystwyth. Went there for a symposium on Cuban cinema, with scholars and filmmakers over from Havana, and other participants mainly based in UK universities; … Continue reading →

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Against ‘Impact’

by michaelc Posted on 10 November 2012

The other day we interviewed a couple of PhD scholarship candidates. Good applicants, with interesting and unusual research proposals. However, I was saddened when one of them started talking about ‘impact’. So, she’d found out about the institutional regime of … Continue reading →

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Transnational in Brussels

by michaelc Posted on 29 October 2012

We convened in Brussels, for a colloquium on transnationalism in Hispanic cinema, on the eve of the latest European summit. The juxtaposition was ironic and not irrelevant. On one side of town, the leaders of European transnationalism grappling with the … Continue reading →

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Changes in Cuba; independent video thriving

by michaelc Posted on 25 April 2012

In 2002 the Cuban filmmaker Fernando Pérez made a compelling documentary called Suite Habana which portrayed the melancholic mood of the Cuban capital at the start of the 21st century. Ten years later the mood is rather different, as I … Continue reading →

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Soundscapes in Maastricht

by michaelc Posted on 6 April 2012

Maastricht provided a suitably quiet setting for an international workshop on ‘Soundscapes of the urban past’, which covered the behaviour of audition across different forms — radio, film, theatre, plus new audio phenomena like car stereos and audio museum guides … Continue reading →

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Marx at the Movies in Preston and Third Cinema in Oxford

by michaelc Posted on 23 March 2012

Events since the near-death experience of finance capital in 2008 have succoured renewed attention not to Marxism as a political creed but to Marx as the urtext of the proper analysis of the capitalist system. On the one hand, old … Continue reading →

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The academic writer’s strike

by michaelc Posted on 22 February 2012

The Thesis Whisperer 22/02/2012 Academic publishing is presented as a universal good, without regard to how the publishing system operates. While publications are an essential addition to the CV in today’s competitive job market, the ethics of publishing need to be considered too. … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Academic life

University of Chile attacked with Tear Gas and Water Cannon

Higher Education is not a commodity

Pointless Obstacles

Cuba in Aberystwyth

Against ‘Impact’

Transnational in Brussels

Changes in Cuba; independent video thriving

Soundscapes in Maastricht

Marx at the Movies in Preston and Third Cinema in Oxford

The academic writer’s strike

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