Art as Activism

This Deep Dive Perspective examines the role of art in resistance to tyranny and destruction. During the last few years, Eddie, Alex and I, with others from time to time, met weekly for a period, spending the day together talking, screen printing and having lunch at the London School of Mosaic where Eddie has his … Read more

Gulag Academia

A study of the effect of hierarchy on academic freedom and our consequent perceptions of reality has been uploaded to archive.org and is available as a PDF here.

Abstract

Purpose: Exposing the deficiencies of institutional hierarchies in academia which limit the potential for human creativity and understanding.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the product of non-hierarchical, self-organised learning following the methodology of CoCreative Learning (see Section 9).

Findings: Academia’s institutional hierarchy perpetuates ignorance of the current political economy which functions as a mechanism to farm humans and harvest the wealth they create.

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