tobymarshall

Against: Marvel's Moronic Inferno
For: Film as Art
Against: Indoctrination
For: Powerful Knowledge
Enjoying 'trail by combat' with Hegel

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"Historically, Bernstein adds, this type of curriculum fused the “initial abstract orientation ... of Greek thought” with the “inner experience” of Christianity. "

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#nationalcurriculum

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"Ball’s externalist approach principally focuses on the claimed ideological function of the curriculum. It seems unlikely to encourage us to pay attention, as Bernstein put it, to the “constitution of the relay itself”.

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History and Ideas on a Grand Scale

#hegel @JamesHeartfield

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"... the Conservative-led UK Coalition Government of 2010 sought to restore the status quo ante by ensuring that state pedagogic discourse again became more traditionalist."

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[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

. @TiceRichard went on TV and called four parties cowards for not turning up in Clacton.

We turned up.

He also said Nigel wants a debate.

We accept.

@Nigel_Farage - name the date.

#cloustonforclacton

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

William Clouston (@WilliamClouston), SDP, is standing to give the people of Clacton full and fair debate. 👇

@UKLabour won't serve Clacton.
@Conservatives won't serve Clacton.
@LibDems won't serve Clacton.
@TheGreenParty won't serve Clacton.
We will.

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"Too often within sociology the voice of education has been disregarded, as if what happens within our classrooms is no more than a reflex of external power structures. Bernstein’s Pedagogic Device encourages us to question this reductive assumption."

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Hegel's Doctrine of Notion and Human Freedom

An introduction by me to the London Old Hegelians

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An important new publication on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

Hegel, it argues, was the first to treat conflict, contradiction and alienation not as problems to be solved but as key moments in human development.

Copies available below:

https://t.co/hnsTdSDrgY

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The Social Odyssey Reigns Supreme in Tinseltown

( ... and that ain't no bad thing)

Chris Anderson and me enjoyed the year Hollywood went 70s style large with Sinners and One Battle After Another.

Congratulations to Teams Anderson and Coogler.

https://t.co/FSFk867WjZ

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Irish solidarity equals cultural death in the intriguing blues epic Sinners.

Coogler often talks about the Panthers but has he forgotten the Rainbow Coalition?

A great film reviewed on Magic Move Music below:

https://t.co/cJ6XKWHCqV

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Pleased to have chaired Andrew Doyle on The End of Woke at the Battle of Ideas, 2025.

Video here:
https://t.co/U5ciG71e6j

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Event: AOI Education Forum Book Club

A discussion of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Online, Monday February 2nd 2026

https://t.co/WwuKScPA0L

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The Substance (2024)

Visually commanding in the first act, a darkly humourous body horror in the second, but perhaps lacking the new insight required to deliver a decisive blow to beauty in the third.

Listen to the discussion on Magic Movie Music:

https://t.co/jvAZ7pBJQm

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The Revolution Will Be Satirized

Listen to Chris Anderson and me discuss One Battle After Another on Magic Movie Music:

https://t.co/fVfINTYkAS

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In this episode of Magic Movie Music I discuss American Psycho (2000) with Chris Anderson.

https://t.co/aFSgKGajmZ

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Happy Halloween

Argento's Deep Red discussed by Chris Anderson and me on Magic Movie Music:

https://t.co/oPTYpTR47K

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In this episode of Magic Movie Music Chris and I discuss Martin Scorsese's Casino:

https://t.co/F9xQbw3Z1V

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Looking forward to chairing the Era of the downwardly mobile graduate? @ Battle of Ideas next weekend #BattleFest

More session details here:

https://t.co/SsC6ny2ZkF