Our talk on the 5 year voyage covering 13 countries. Part 3 from Berlin to London. The first two talks can be watched here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHddF09QsCqjwbvoQ2vlM8cWakdwKtfFT come and enjoy the finale installment and find out what happens next #boatingeurope
At an Oxford event – The Policy engagement workshop
“How should the new Labour government be listening?” A few notes: Firstly it needs to be said, this is common in Oxford, this is powerless people talking about things that matter. Where activism is about forming a group of action for pushing and pulling power, this event is not activism, it’s academy, need to remember…
Academics at Oxford
Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East St Antony’s College, Dr Sarah Bush (University of Pennslyvania) The right-wing and the #NGO crew have both coopted the idea of activism with some of its traditions and without any use of its purpose and path. This academic aproch looks at gender and the shift to…
Talking to the Oxford Academics
Academics writing and thinking on activism tends to be bad because the sources are outa date and second hand, and the people who acutely want to talk to academics are the #fashernistas who have little idea of how things work in activism. Put this into the academic feedback loop, and you have something that looks…
Thoughts on my 3ed Oxford seminar
Most academy is about building consensus on how to name things. Am at a Oxford seminar on Deepfakes & Disinformation (Cassidy Bereskin) which is doing this, maybe discourse after, let’s see. The events are status games, to establish a place in #mainstreaming hierarchy with the subject they are working on. There is little if any…
The Pressblock take Oxford Street Oct20
Published Date 11/28/12 10:59 AM [embedded content] The Pressblock take Oxford Street, blocked McDonald’s, Starbucks and occupy Trafalgar sq during #Oct20 Radical Journalist’s putting there body’s on the line to bring wrong doers to account. A satire – at many demo’s the are more people with cameras than demonstrates. Shot, edited and distributed from a mobile phone. Part…
The Present and Future of US Politics: Foreign Policy
Speaker: Peter Feaver (Duke University)As the United States heads into a high-stakes presidential election, this seminar series explores the structural problems and political challenges behind the headlines. We examine why American politics is so polarised and ask: what is at stake in the 2024 elections? The seminars will open with a short presentation by an…
Location and Rebellion: Rethinking the Relationship between Revolution and State Capacity
Speaker: Mark Beissinger (Princeton) DRAFT First impression is that everyone is very shiny and affluent, young academics and future bureaucrats. Looking at how location affects revolution challenge and state repression. Safe but infective in rural areas, close to power in urban areas revaluations have more impact but are much more dangerous for the revolutionaries. State…
What am I doing now?
People ask, so It’s good to remind my self about this, my journey of working to compost this mess goes back a long way, as you can see from the snapshots of history I’ve written about here: https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=history. It’s a light touch on nearly 30 years of work. It all started with the Sinclair Spectrum,…
What can we do.
The is deep dissatisfaction with the current “common sense”, especially in the context of how it has contributed to a pervasive sense of fragmentation, meaninglessness, and cynicism in most contemporary life. The is very little meaning and action in our intellectual movements, the #blocking of the old stories, Marxism, Enlightenment ideals, and even reality itself.…