Professor University of Sydney. Author of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations (2015) & Organising Responses to Climate Change (2022)
Joined September 2011
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How university administrators are guzzling the AI Kool-Aid: aje.news/ujtvmr via @AJEnglish
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New article exploring how Australia’s climate inaction is actively maintained via division, paralysis & displacement: 'Obstructing change: political inertia and the maintenance of climate inaction in Australia'.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Just to be clear: Palestinians who refuse to “voluntarily” enter this concentration camp will be MURDERED. That’s the plan. Stated openly. And people still insist with a straight face that this isn’t genocide.
So, anyone who doesn’t go to the concentration camp will be “eliminated.”
Doesn’t sound genocidal at all…
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Australia’s universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making
Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
@JasonClareMP @ALeighMP
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"The incentive structure of the modern American university encourages relatively unsuccessful scholars, those who fail to establish fruitful research programs early in their careers, to pursue administrative positions, where they wield authority over more successful colleagues, who actually generate educational value. As a result, the American university is disproportionately governed by relative academic failures."
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Universities throughout the Anglosphere systematically reward corruption and incompetence with monetary incentives.
The outcome of that should be no surprise.
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"The incentive structure of the modern American university encourages relatively unsuccessful scholars, those who fail to establish fruitful research programs early in their careers, to pursue administrative positions, where they wield authority over more successful colleagues, who actually generate educational value. As a result, the American university is disproportionately governed by relative academic failures."
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Ignore the words, watch the actions. This is the only point worth paying attention to. Everything else is just noise.
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Lebanon is again the place to watch. Iran says the MOU will be signed on Friday, but the lifting of the US blockade and a ceasefire in Lebanon will take effect immediately. If Israel keeps bombing Lebanon, the MOU probably won't happen.
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Our society should be horrified how we have normalised our own ally Israel, supported and enabled by us in the UK, committing daily mass murder, of babies, children and other unarmed civilians
SEE our society's indifference, its tepid attitude
SEE our society's cynicism
SEE our society's stunted imagination and inability to empathise
SEE our society's lack of any morals, lack of any decency or honour
SEE this sickness. WHAT have we become? WE too have become MONSTERS
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This is not residual algae. This is not sabotage. This is not sea monkeys. This is not going away. This is the result of incompetence and creating a heat sink in a shallow non chlorinated pool.
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The French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, and professional troublemaker who led the Situationist International and wrote The Society of the Spectacle (1967) would see motorcycles flipping in front of the White House for what they are: not rebellion, but the spectacle flattering itself...a high-octane screensaver for a Herrenvolk democracy. The riders risk their necks so cameras can mine clips; the crowd risks nothing and calls it participation, mistaking adrenaline for agency. Power is so relaxed it stages "danger" at its own front door and sells it back as freedom, merch, and content. You walk away with a video instead of improved material conditions, convinced you've seen subversion when all you've really seen is how completely even your urge to rebel has been neutered. This is the movie they show on the Ship of Fools as you literally sail into your misery and destuction...Enjoy.
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Jun 14
I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.
University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.
Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.
There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.
If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.
Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:
Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.
Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.
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Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book.
Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts.
This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one.
To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization — if the schools and universities won't teach the great books, we must form reading groups to study them ourselves.
Every month, we read a new great work. We've covered texts like Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote.
We're now reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
We must study the ideas upon which the West was built if we are to preserve it. It takes effort to read these texts, and even more to read them well. Thats what we're doing, slowly, in dialogue with each other.
If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. We are entirely funded by our members.
You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next
athenaeumbooks.com/welcome
Welcome!
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Conservatives often criticize universities for failing to prepare students for jobs.
But that's like criticizing a library for failing to function as a gym.
The purpose of a university was never vocational training. It was always the pursuit and transmission of knowledge.
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There has never been a more perfect metaphor.
He didn’t drain the swamp, he literally installed one.
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The Reflecting Pool is currently experiencing an algae outgrowth, indicating high pH conditions.
Such a high pH is known to strip paint, potentially ruining Trump's $14M paint renovation.
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Hany Farid saying this is terrifying.
“I don’t trust anything. Every image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in my head. It’s over. Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.” nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…
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Did you know that Hitler never once personally killed anyone? Same with Saddam, Pol Pot, Stalin, etc. They’re still mass murderers because they ordered others to do things that killed people. Musk did the same with DOGE—killing more people by 2030 than Stalin & Pol Pot combined.
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Musk became Donald Trump's #1 political donor, assumed a high-profile role early in his administration, and in that role inflicted incredible harm on some of the most vulnerable people in the world while failing to achieve any of his stated goals.
slowboring.com/p/yes-doge-fa…
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Stanford graduates chant "Free Palestine" waving Palestinian flags as they walk out on Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai as he beings his commencement speech. Absolutely epic.
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Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
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One problem is that tuition-driven institutions facing declining enrollments can’t afford to fail paying customers.
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These anguished essays leave me puzzled as to why professors are puzzled as to what to do.. If students can't do the work then give them a bad grade to reflect that. End of. chronicle.com/article/my-stu…
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“Capitalism gave us the internet.”
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
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Leading medical journal The Lancet publishes call to expel Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide
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Medical journal The Lancet has published a petition calling for the Israeli Medical Association to be boycotted and expelled from the World Medical Association over its failure to condemn what the petition describes as Israel's genocide against Palestinians and the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system.
The campaign, launched by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, and Doctors for Gaza, has so far received support from more than 1,150 healthcare professionals and medical organizations. The call for expulsion is expected to be raised at the World Medical Association's general assembly in October.
The Israeli Medical Association opposed the move, arguing that its expulsion would not advance peace, healthcare, or human rights, and would instead create a precedent for using political pressure campaigns to isolate healthcare workers based on their nationality.
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BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.
The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.
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