This is a journey of exploration into two questions: "How did we break?' and "How do we heal?". These interviews are with guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions.

Our guide here is Prof Richard Hall (see below for Richard's bio) and the interview is released to celebrate the publication of his new book - 'The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of the End of History'.

http://mayflybooks.org/?p=302

Together, we explore the colonisation of the university by capital and the conditions of alienation and hopelessness that the capitalist university engenders. Beyond concrete prescriptions, Richard identifies the origins of reimagining relations of producing knowledge in the yearning within us all for our self- and collective realisation.

Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, and a National Teaching Fellow. He is a trustee of the Open Library of Humanities, a member of the Management Committee of the Leicester Primary Pupil Referral Unit, and an independent visitor for a looked-after child. He is the author of The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University with Palgrave Macmillan, and The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History with MayFly books. Richard describes the Hopeless University as "a flag bearer for a collective life that is becoming more efficiently unsustainable.”

He writes about life in the University at richard-hall.org. He centres hopelessness twice a week by watching the struggles of Walsall FC.

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