Join our new online workshop about 'Sterilizing democratic politics: The rise of the technocratic–neoliberal fix in Italy and Europe'!
When: Thursday 25 June at 6pm CET
With author Adriano Cozzolino and discussant Daniela Caterina
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there!
My university is going all-in on AI with Co-pilot, and the new document states: 'Generative AI (GenAI): is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) designed to create NEW., ORIGINAL
content'. This is literally untrue! The very definition of GenAI is to passively summarise already-existing knowledge
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Sterilizing democratic politics: The rise of the technocratic–neoliberal fix in Italy and Europe
Speaker: Adriano Cozzolino
Discussant: Yuliya Yurchenko
The article is available here: https://link.s...
NEW VIDEO! I look at Tony Blair's politics of "Radical centrism", compare it to Poulantzas' view of Authoritarian Statism and show how Blair's obsession with AI is the logical end point of trying to squeeze the masses out of democracy (link below)
Constructive alignment is a one size fits all template that shapes course curricula in Europe. In this contribution to our Dispatches series, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that it's not neutral but rather centres a specific philosophy that forecloses alternative pedagogies
Interesting and, given the present conjuncture, timely new article by Samuel Knafo, who argues that the notion of the double movement undermines our ability to historicize the politics of capitalism.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m very much looking forward to Trump appointing Incitatus as his new Secretary of State. Can’t be that far off
PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company.
See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.
CPERN
Some of the most exciting thinking about political economy in Britain has come out of PERC. Its closure is a huge loss and an indictment of the state of UK academia www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
Ian Bruff
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
