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The Fantasy and Fate of Ethnic Studies in an Age of Uprisings: An Interview with Nick Mitchell

In this conversation, feminist studies and black studies scholar Nick Mitchell and Undercommoner Zach Schwartz-Weinstein discuss a range of topics: the politics of criticality; the labor politics of black studies and ethnic studies; the absorptive quality of the university’s administration of difference; the work of fantasy in academic labor; the origins of adjunctification and casualization; Black Lives Matter’s transformation into… Read more →

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Radical Practices of Collective Care (blog)

http://radicalcollectivecare.blogspot.co.at/ This is the blog of a collective research process investigating collective practices of care, reproduction and mutual aid as related to social movements. We are gathering examples of radical practices of caring, housing and food production. Our work is based on a rota of research presentations that feeds into this online toolbox. This project was initiated by Manuela Zechner,… Read more →

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Libera Universita Metropolita (LUM) – Rome

http://www.lumproject.org/ LUM is a Free Metropolitan University, independent from the academy, that since 2005 organizes open seminars which last one year. Students, researchers, precarious workers, PhD students and professors hold free and public discussions leading to the organization of an annual seminar. Every year it is focused on different issues, such as  transformation of metropolis and its gentrification; human nature… Read more →

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Really Open University (Leeds)

http://reallyopenuniversity.wordpress.com The Really Open University is an ongoing process of transformation by those with a desire to challenge the higher education system and its role in society. Instigated by students and staff of higher education institutions in the city of Leeds (UK), the ROU is non-hierarchical and open to anyone who wishes to see an end to the commodifcation of… Read more →

This is the map side of a disorientation game & map that the Counter\mapping collective at Queen Mary University in London produced along with 3Cs.

Radically Remapping the Crisis University

http://www.countercartographies.org/ The Counter Cartography Collective (CCC) has developed methods for counter-mapping the university in crisis. Based in intensive inquiry, study and research, their maps and materials chart the power and money as they flow through academic institutions. Read in interview with Tim Stallmann of CCC from our archives: http://undercommoning.org/mapping-shared-imaginaries-for-anti-capitalist-movements/ ds Read more →

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“How to Start a Free University” booklet from the Melbourne Free University

From http://melbournefreeuniversity.org/ Download the booklet here. Since the MFU’s inception, we have been getting lots of feedback and requests to start free universities elsewhere in Australia and overseas. To allow more people to share in our endeavour we podcast most of our lectures, but want to do more. We want to support other communities to set up their own free universities.… Read more →

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Melbourne Free University

http://melbournefreeuniversity.org/ The Melbourne Free University provides a platform for learning, discussion and debate which is open to everyone. The MFU was established in 2010 in response to Australia’s increasingly outcome oriented education system, and aims to offer space for independent engagement with important contemporary ideas and issues. The MFU runs six-week courses on a range of subjects and themes, with… Read more →

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