A hastily penned response to the UK government's cuts to culture and education, for e-flux journal #22 - a special issue reporting on the rise of the right in Europe, guest edited by Paul Chan and Sven Lütticken.
I read your article and it clearly defines the issues around neoliberalism's attack on the social fabric of community life and most things human and authentic. So in response to your article I wrote a personal blog post on Furtherfield called 'How a Library Saved My Life' http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/marc-garrett/how-library-saved-my-life
Whilst agreeing with the article in spirit I think it a little soft on the many abuses that were happening under the previous administration's largesse. The ACE internal audit found nepotism and corruption on a large scale and my personal experience of quasi- quangos like Creative Partnerships was they nice if one allowed in to the inner ring of funding spenders but achieved little of real worth apart from paying a lot of middle-class mortgages.
In most cases of the over £6 billion spent in the Labour years there is little of long-term worth to show for it apart from a string of contemporary galleries trying to shore up a failed regeneration mantra. If some of that £6 million had been spent on Student Fees returning to their 1980's level we wouldn't have paved the way for the present disaster.
If more accountability had been shown then we would not be so weak now in oposing the Con Dem hammer.
Also as a 'magic carpeter' (Seabrook) you have been fortunate to be extracted by your talents from your background and are one of the lucky ones as now able to work in the land of Academic capitalism par excellence.
Ironically then Willets is instigating a model you are being renumerated by already surely?
Meanwhile we poor less able miners at the coalface here in Academia UK PLC are watching the pit props collapse around us:-(
The neoliberal capatalist agenda has not varied nor shirked in its implementation since 1979...and many so-called left-wingers are as guilty in its propagation as those on the far right.
This isn't really a blog, more of an online archive of my publications, articles, talks, conferences, and so on. For pdfs of my writing, see my page at academia.edu
About me: I am a professor in the PhD Program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, New York, where I've been based since 2008. Previously I taught at Warwick University (2006-8), at the Royal College of Art, London (2001-6) and at Essex University, where I completed my PhD in 2002. I can be contacted on cbishop@gc.cuny.edu. - CB
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Hi Claire,
I read your article and it clearly defines the issues around neoliberalism's attack on the social fabric of community life and most things human and authentic. So in response to your article I wrote a personal blog post on Furtherfield called 'How a Library Saved My Life' http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/marc-garrett/how-library-saved-my-life
Thank you & wishing you well.
marc garrett
Whilst agreeing with the article in spirit I think it a little soft on the many abuses that were happening under the previous administration's largesse. The ACE internal audit found nepotism and corruption on a large scale and my personal experience of quasi- quangos like Creative Partnerships was they nice if one allowed in to the inner ring of funding spenders but achieved little of real worth apart from paying a lot of middle-class mortgages.
In most cases of the over £6 billion spent in the Labour years there is little of long-term worth to show for it apart from a string of contemporary galleries trying to shore up a failed regeneration mantra. If some of that £6 million had been spent on Student Fees returning to their 1980's level we wouldn't have paved the way for the present disaster.
If more accountability had been shown then we would not be so weak now in oposing the Con Dem hammer.
Also as a 'magic carpeter' (Seabrook) you have been fortunate to be extracted by your talents from your background and are one of the lucky ones as now able to work in the land of Academic capitalism par excellence.
Ironically then Willets is instigating a model you are being renumerated by already surely?
Meanwhile we poor less able miners at the coalface here in Academia UK PLC are watching the pit props collapse around us:-(
The neoliberal capatalist agenda has not varied nor shirked in its implementation since 1979...and many so-called left-wingers are as guilty in its propagation as those on the far right.
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