Our Vice-Chancellor

Grant me the indulgence of a blog about blogs. I have been working recently in a field which overlaps with the area of philosophy that has come to be called “speculative realism.” The exact content of speculative realism need not concern us for long. Suffice it to say that it is an area of philosophy which, coming after the anti-realism evinced by those concerned with issues like texts and discourse, is trying to move back to realism, but of a different kind from the variants that have gone before.

It is interesting to see how work and social habits in the university are changing as the mobile phone and the other diverse and relatively inexpensive instruments of mobile telecommunication become an indispensable adjunct to life. We are no longer in a world where communication ceases. So how is this affecting the running of universities?