Glenn Rikowski
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"Refuse to accept the fetishistic fragmentation of social existence imposed by bourgeois forms"
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56 years old
London,
United Kingdom
Last Login:7/20/2008
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| General | Marxist educational theory;
The Future of the Human (transhumanism,posthumanism);
Theories of Social Time;
Lost (the TV series);
Writing;
Walking;
and Collecting newspaper cuttings;
Life in General | | Music | Egg;
Gong;
Dave Stewart;
Arzachel;
Steve Hackett;
Gee Morris;
Khan;
Steve Hillage;
System of a Down;
Circulus;
Chrome Hoof;
Porcupine Tree;
Ozric Tentacles;
Iona;
Lost Prophets;
Linkin Park;
Ash Ra Tempel;
Gentle Giant;
Comus;
Muse;
Queens of the Stone Age;
Aphex Twin;
Nine Inch Nails;
Abigail's Ghost;
Faust;
Van Der Graaf Generator;
Camel;
Talking Heads;
Neil Young;
Quintessence;
Innocence;
Emerson, Lake and Palmer;
Hawkwind;
John Mayall;
Madonna;
Roxy Music;
Amazing Blondel;
The Mars Volta;
Khoma;
Enigma;
Ten Years After;
The Future Sound of London;
Mozart;
and Hummel. | | Movies | The Usual Suspects;
2001: A Space Odyssey;
Dumb and Dumber;
The Blair Witch Project;
Apocalypse Now;
The Lord of the Rings;
Leon;
American Beauty;
Reservoir Dogs;
Dog Soldiers;
Themroc;
Punishment Park;
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly;
High Plains Drifter;
Alien;
Close Encounters of the Third Kind;
Casablanca;
Lost Horizon
Heat;
The Omen (1976);
| | Television | Lost (before it went to Sky);
Heroes;
Eastenders (but the plots are getting sillier and sillier);
Football (Soccer);
Basically, I don't watch much TV. | | Books | 'Capital' (in three volumes) by Karl Marx;
'Grundrisse' by Karl Marx;
'Theories of Surplus Value - Volume 1' by Karl Marx;
'Time, Labor and Social Domination' by Moishe Postone;
'Money and the Human Condition' by Michael Neary and Graham Taylor;
'Karl Marx and the Future of the Human' by Cyril Smith;
'Critical Education Against Global Capitalism' by Paula Allman;
'Red Seminars' by Peter McLaren;
'Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution' by Peter McLaren;
'Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England' by David Black;
'Revolutionary Social Transformation: Democrartic Hopes, Poltical Possibilities and Critical Education' by Paula Allman;
'Nietzsche's Corps/e' by Geoff Waite;
'Beyond Good and Evil' by Freidrich Neitzsche;
'Daybreak' by Friedrich Nietzsche;
'Marx and Education' by Robin Small;
'Change the World Without Taking Power' by John Holloway;
'The Labour Debate' by Ana Dinerstein and Michael Neary;
'Youth, Training and the Training State' by Michael Neary;
'The State Debate' edited by Simon Clarke;
'Marx's Method' by Derek Sayer;
'The Violence of Abstraction' by Derek Sayer;
'The Eye of Abu' by George Goodchild;
| | Heroes | Karl Marx;
Mary Wollstonecraft;
Antonio Gramsci;
Antonio Negri;
Rosa Luxembourg;
Raya Dunayevskaya;
Albert Einstein;
Ludwig Wittgenstein;
Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree);
Gee Morris
Steve Hillage;
Dave Stewart;
Moishe Postone;
All those engaged in the anti-capitalist movement.
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Socialism, Marxism, International Socialist Tendency, The State, The Communist Forum, justathought, League For Social Justice, The Myspace Debate Forum
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | London | | Body type: | Some extra baggage | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Post grad | | Occupation: | University lecturer |
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About me:
Dr. Glenn Rikowski: I am a Marxist educational theorist and thinker on the future of the human and social time.
I work at the University of Northampton, England, where I teach Education Studies.
My publications include:
The Battle in Seattle: Its Significance for Education (2001, Tufnell Press),
Red Chalk: On Schooling, Capitalism and Politics (2001, The Institute for Education Policy Studies) - written with Dave Hill, Mike Cole and Peter McLaren
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (with Dave Hill, Peter McLaren and Mike Cole) (2002, Lexington Books), and
Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education - Openings (edited with Anthony Green and Helen Raduntz) (2007, Palgrave Macmillan).
Information for Social Change
Glenn edited Information for Social Change Issue No.23, a Special Issue on 'Education for Social Change'.
This is the general URL for the journal:
http://libr.org/ISC/
This is the URL for Issue No.23:
http://libr.org/isc/toc.html
From 1994 to 2001, Glenn was a member of the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators.
With Tony Green (University of London, Institute of Education), I have run the Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues seminars, twice-yearly (May and October) since October 2002.
I have a web site, The Flow of Ideas, at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk
As well as Wavering on Ether, the blog I have here on Myspace, I also have the Volumizer, an AOL blog at:
http://journals.aol.co.uk/rikowskigr/Volumizer
An additional AOL blog is Rikowski Point, which has shorter items and plugs for conferences, new books, gigs and other events: http://journals.aol.co.uk/rikowskigr/rikowski-point
You can see the Rikowski Newsletter at:
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rikowskigr/myhomepage/newsletter.html
Glenn's Staff Profile at the University of Northampton, School of Education is at:
http://almond.admin.nene.ac.uk:7777/portal/page?_pageid=213,6567769&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Glenn is a Peterborough United supporter.
I live in London, and I am married to Ruth Rikowski, a Marxist library and information activist. See her article on Value - the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, at:
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68
We have three boys: Alexander, Victor and Gregory.
You can Victor's mythological PowerPoint story (in 6 parts), called The Ockress at: http://www.theockress.com
Key Articles Online
Glenn Rikowski (2006) Education and the Politics of Human Resistance, Information for Social Change, No.23 (summer)
Glenn Rikowski (2006) Caught in the Storm of Capital: Teacher Professionalism, Managerialism, and Neoliberalism in Schools, 30th October
Glenn Rikowski (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, Special Issue on Marxist Futures
Glenn Rikowski (2001) After the Manuscript Broke Off: Thoughts on Marx, Social Class and Education, a paper for the British Sociological Association Education Study Group Meeting, King’s College London, 23rd June
Glenn Rikowski (2000) That Other Great Class of Commodities: Repositioning Marxist Educational Theory, BERA Conference Paper, Cardiff University, 7-10 September
Michael Neary and Glenn Rikowski (2000) The Speed of Life: The significance of Karl Marx's concept of socially necessary labour-time, University of York, 17 -20 April
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Who I'd like to meet:
Alien life forms;
Humans of the future who exist outside the social universe of capital
Short of that, I would settle for Moishe Postone, Steven Wilson or Gee Morris.
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