Luke's Notes

“I would describe myself as a socialist.

Continued from Sussex Stories 1 The interdisciplinary system For me, the most exciting thing about Sussex was that it had a unique interdisciplinary structure.

See Contents and Introduction to this series.

These are stories of my time working at Sussex University 1990-2024.

Crossposted from The Loop 2023, under a Creative Commons licence.

Communism and freedom; Labour and socialism; class, gender, and inequality; race and migration; war, violence, and survival; love; and footballers.

Crossposted with slight revisions from Transforming Society 2023.This post is an introduction to themes from my book Alternative Societies.

On dialogical education, what it is, more radical and less radical versions, putting it into practice, and whether it can be defended.

Capitalists, communists, and climate; spies and assassins; cops and robbers; class, race, and gender.

I've been writing an account of my time as a lecturer at Sussex University since 1990.

Between 2010-13 I wrote some blog posts (links at the bottom) about the privatisation and marketisation of universities in the UK (and elsewhere - for example, Chile, Canada, and the USA).