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37Noosphere rising: Internet-based collective intelligence, creative labour, and social productionThesis Eleven 130 (1): 3-21. 2015.Our article relocates the debate about creative labour to the terrain of peer-to-peer interneting as the paradigmatic form of nonmarket – social – production. From Yann Moulier Boutang we take the point that creative labour is immaterial; it is expressed through people connected by the internet. Drawing on two social systems thinkers, Francis Heylighen and Wolfgang Hofkirchner, we transpose this connectedness up to a conception of creative labour as a supra-individual collective intelligence. Th…Read more
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11New histories of capitalism: from delineation to critiqueEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (14): 1399-1407. 2019.Volume 51, Issue 14, December 2019, Page 1399-1407.
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13Named or nameless: University ethics, confidentiality and sexual harassmentEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14): 2422-2433. 2022.This paper focusses on our concerns about revelations about sexual harassment in universities and the inadequate responses whereby some universities seem more concerned about their own reputations than the care and protection of their students. Seldom do cases go to criminal court, instead they mostly fall within employment relations policies where the use of non-disclosure agreements are double edged, such that some perpetrators remain nameless even if the person offended against wants details …Read more
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24New age spiritualism, mysticism, and far-right conspiracyEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1608-1616. 2023.When the moon is in the Seventh HouseAnd Jupiter aligns with MarsThen peace will guide the planetsAnd love will steer the starsThis is the dawning of the age of Aquarius–‘The Age of Aquarius’, 5th...
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5Marshalling the Self: James D. Marshall as Educational PhilosopherEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (3): 389-395. 2005.
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14Manifesto for the postcolonial universityEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (2): 142-148. 2019.
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18Limiting the capacity for hate: Hate speech, hate groups and the philosophy of hateEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14): 2325-2330. 2022.On May 8, 2020, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General warned on Twitter ‘the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering’ ‘appealin...
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23Language-games philosophy: Language-games as rationality and methodEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1929-1935. 2022.Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games. Imagination creates the games that reason proceeds to play. Then, exemplified by people such as Plato and Newton, it keeps mod...
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10Late Modernity from the Perspective of Girls’ EducationEducational Philosophy and Theory 47 (10): 997-1005. 2015.Late Modernity is one of those imprecise concertina concepts like postmodernity or indeed modernity itself that expands to fill the theoretical void. These concepts are very broad historical catego...
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8Lyotard, nihilism and educationStudies in Philosophy and Education 25 (4): 303-314. 2006.This paper argues the Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition is to be interpreted as a response to nihilism, especially in relation to the question of the legitimation of knowledge and the so-called crisis of narratives, and that, therefore, it provides an appropriate response to the question of nihilism in educational philosophy. The paper begins with a discussion of Nietzsche's and Heidegger's views of nihilism as a prolegomenon to Lyotard's views concerning European nihilism and the end of grand …Read more
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50Love and social distancing in the time of Covid-19: The philosophy and literature of pandemicsEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (8): 755-759. 2021.The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities. Wendy Orent, How Plagues Really Work,
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23Knowledge socialism: the rise of peer production - collegiality, collaboration, and collective intelligenceEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (1): 1-9. 2019.The terms ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge capitalism’ have been used with increasing frequency since the 1990s as a way of describing the latest phase of capitalism in in the process of global r...
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8Kinds of thinking, styles of reasoningEducational Philosophy and Theory 39 (4). 2007.There is no more central issue to education than thinking and reasoning. Certainly, such an emphasis chimes with the rationalist and cognitive deep structure of the Western educational tradition. The contemporary tendency reinforced by cognitive science is to treat thinking ahistorically and aculturally as though physiology, brain structure and human evolution are all there is to say about thinking that is worthwhile or educationally significant. The movement of critical thinking also tends to t…Read more
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8Kinds of Thinking, Styles of ReasoningIn Mark Mason (ed.), Critical Thinking and Learning, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Why the Present Emphasis on Thinking? Kinds of Thinking: Heidegger on What is Called Thinking? Wittgenstein on Thinking Styles of Reasoning Notes References.
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17Kinds of Thinking, Styles of ReasoningEducational Philosophy and Theory 39 (4): 350-363. 2007.There is no more central issue to education than thinking and reasoning. Certainly, such an emphasis chimes with the rationalist and cognitive deep structure of the Western educational tradition. The contemporary tendency reinforced by cognitive science is to treat thinking ahistorically and aculturally as though physiology, brain structure and human evolution are all there is to say about thinking that is worthwhile or educationally significant. The movement of critical thinking also tends to t…Read more
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5Je m'excuse, Monsieur Lyotard: Response to ClarkEducational Philosophy and Theory 38 (3): 407-410. 2006.
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14James (J.C.) Walker: Philosopher of Education – The celebration of a lifeEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (1): 11-15. 2022.
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43Jean‐Luc Godard's Film Socialisme and the Pedagogy of the ImageEducational Philosophy and Theory 44 (7): 681-685. 2012.
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8James D. Marshall: Philosopher of Education Interview with Michael A. PetersEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (3): 291-297. 2005.
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5James D. Marshall: Philosopher of education interview with Michael A. PetersEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (3). 2005.
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11Interview with George Yancy, African-American philosopher of critical philosophy of raceEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (7): 663-669. 2019.
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5Interview with Kevin HarrisEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (3): 209-216. 2021.This interview took place through email during October-November, 2019. Michael: It’s a real pleasure to engage you in conversation. You were a foundation member of PESA and someone who in the pre-I...
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14In the domain of the imageEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (7): 677-682. 2021.In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.– Don DeLillo, (2016) Mao II, p.27, Pan Macmillan.Some three years ago we envisioned a project concerning the shift from text...
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117. Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of SubjectivityIn Benoît Dillet, Iain Mackenzie & Robert Porter (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 368-382. 2013.
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15Žižek on China and COVID-19: Wuhan, authoritarian capitalism, and empathetic socialism in NZEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 651-655. 2022.On my visit to the city Wuhan in 1999 I was invited to the philosophy department at Wuhan University to give a couple of lectures on Wittgenstein. The city was in the middle of a merger of three un...
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