my talk at the #AcProf2019 conference: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work, held in Manchester on Thursday 4 April, 2019. (https://t.co/vqhp1bpMYB)

1. Richard Hall ¦ @hallymk1 ¦
rhall1@dmu.ac.uk ¦ richard-hall.org

3. Categorical critique: beyond differences; what is common
among us
The hopelessness of labour: mistaking manifestations for the
cause
A poetic synthesis: connecting contemporary Marxism with
the literature of feminism, (de)colonialism, identity politics

6. The material production of knowledge for-value, surplus, wealth
Common sense knowledge and/as certainty/performance: KEF;
REF; TEF
Epistemic power, monocultures and (de)legitimisation

7. Alienation erupts from the disconnection between political
economy and human richness
a conscious and qualitative lack of agency or autonomy,
where ongoing, systemic exploitation and dispossession
are… reproduced by the individual who has to submit
through a lack of power-over her own social reproduction

9. the academic becomes complicit in protecting her labour-
power, and seeking to enhance its value in the market.
marginalises or silences those who are unable to recalibrate
their practice against discourses of excellence and impact,
and whose labour-power is not permanently accessible to
capital, for instance because they are carers, mothers,
disabled or in working poverty.

11. to define a new anti-productive environment: ecologies
Against self-harming activities of the academic peloton:
monocultures
To define an alternative form of intellectual work: social
metabolic control
The struggle for dignity is the struggle for a new form of
revolutionary pedagogy at the level of society.

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