"To demand education as a means of empowerment is not simply to demand it as a means of employment, but also to pursue and seize it as a defiant luxury which employment would deny us." A piece developed from recent AHRC panel "University of Excess" happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t...

The University of Excess: On Education and its EmploymentThe title of this piece originally came together from a conversation I had with Stevphen Shukaitis in the wake of the waves of redundancies at the University of Essex, from which he pitched the rat…happyhourathippels.wordpress.com