PHILOSOPHY
As well as my weekly student-website, Philosophy Unleashed, here is some philosophy I have written that is longer than a blog post…
Downloadable Articles/Papers:
latest TITLE: Band Praxis - Punk and the Anarchist Squint BOOK: DIY or Die!: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together & Punk Anarchism, Active Distribution, 2024
TITLE: An Error of Punishment Defences in the Context of Schooling JOURNAL: The Journal of Philosophy of Education (DaN McKee (2023) Volume 57, Issue 6, December 2023, Pages 1127–1146, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhad077 )
TITLE: Character Flaws - An Anarchist Critique of Character Education in England’s Secondary Schools, JOURNAL: Anarchist Studies (DaN McKee (2021) Character Flaws – An Anarchist Critique of Character Education in England’s Secondary Schools , Anarchist Studies, 29(2), 44-74. DOI: 10.3898/AS.29.2.02 )
TITLE: The Function of the School in a Time of Crisis - a paper I wrote on a whim last summer following a Noam Chomsky lecture on the anniversary of his own classic essay, The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis. Too polemical for the journals, so here it is for public consumption.
TITLE: The Punk Art of Failure: Punk, Queer Theory, and Alternative Epistemologies - a paper I wrote 2021 which, rather fittingly, failed to make the cut for a book on punk and philosophy so I thought I’d post it here instead.
TITLE: You Can Get There From Here: Responses to some questions on AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY
TITLE: The Right to Kill But Not To Question - presented at University of Manchester’s Brave New World conference, 2007
TITLE: The Fear of Moral Truths: Low Self Esteem and the Fact/Value Dichotomy - presented at Cardiff University’s Postgraduate seminar series, 2007
TITLE: Constructing a Political Teleology - unpublished paper from 2006/7 where I outline the basis of the “political teleology” on which AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY is based.
Forthcoming:
TITLE: Band Praxis: Punk and the Anarchist Squint BOOK CHAPTER in Anarchism and Punk in Action: Iteration, Prefiguration and Politicisation (Anarchism and Punk book project)
Current Research:
TITLE: Teach Them A Lesson: The Real School-to-Prison Pipeline