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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Routledge Business, Economics & Law Editors @routledgeeditor.bsky.social · Nov 21

📕📕NEW BOOK📕📕

The Organisation of Things (Martin Parker)

"If you want your thinking to be challenged, extended and provoked, read this book.” @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social

"radiant and hilarious" Stefano Harney

"endlessly fascinating" Melissa Tyler

www.routledge.com/The-Organiza...

Front cover of "The Organisation of Things"

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Dec 11

Plenty of solidarity in #grassroots - e.g Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social - the problem is lack of solidarity from senior management, partly originating in the rubbish taught in Business Schools, see this by @profmartinp.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2018/ap...

Why we should bulldoze the business school

The long read: There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · May 19

This is what Carl Rhodes said about my book.

“Books about organizations too often offer hackneyed statements of the obvious, riddled with ideologically saturated saccharine meanderings of marginal importance."

He then says my book doesn't do that, so buy it.

www.routledge.com/The-Organiza...

The Organization of Things: A Cabinet of Curiosities

This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized. The business school has captured ideas about organization, and reduced them to questions of formal structures, documented processes, logistics ...

www.routledge.com

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ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social · May 1

Space is a key feature of social life. But does the digitalisation of society affect its spatial dimensions, and if so, how? Listen to our latest podcast with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Theodore Schatzki and Dale Southerton

researchpod.org/university-o...

#sociodigitalfutures @leverhulme.ac.uk

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Bristol Green Party @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social · May 1

TODAY WE CAN ELECT A GREEN MAYOR

Polling stations are now OPEN.
You can get out and vote Mary Page to be the first Green, West Of England Mayor.

Remember to bring ID.
💪Let’s do this!💪

TODAY
Green Party
VOTE
MARY
PAGE
FOR WEST OF ENGLAND MAYOR
Promoted by Jenny Vernon on behalf of Mary Page (Green Party)
all at 17 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5@T.

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Apr 30

Coop people! (And those who are alternative economy adjacent.) Last chance to submit an abstract for our special issue on coops in fiction, art and culture. Just an abstract to start off with, but do let us have a look at your ideas. See below.

www.ukscs.coop/pages/imagin...

Imagining co-operatives? | UK Society for Co-operative Studies

2026 Special Issue: Co-operatives and co-operative economy in art and culture

www.ukscs.coop

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Bristol Green Party @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social · Apr 30

TOMORROW IS YOUR CHANCE

🟩 Vote Mary Page to be the first ever GREEN MAYOR for the West Of England. 🟩

It’s gonna be a tight one, but with YOUR HELP we can do this!

Credit: John Darvall, BBC

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Woke Willy @wokewilly.bsky.social · Apr 29

🤣🦅🤣

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Apr 28

It is terribly good.

Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Apr 10

A movement of movements for Bristol event on 17th April 2025. Can we co-ordinate our activities so that the many local and particular forms of activism can become a rising tide of change which is impossible to ignore? Tickets below.

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/prs...

A movement of movements for Bristol? at PRSC

Bristol is a city full of energy and vibrant alternative initiatives, but they don’t always connect well together. The idea of a ‘movement of movements’ suggests that organizing might to scale out and...

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Apr 9

In this episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of 'Stinking Rich', explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @profmartinp.bsky.social

🎧➡️ buff.ly/i2cqmt1

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Apr 7

In the first episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of 'Changemakers', discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible

@profmartinp.bsky.social

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PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society

Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Apr 1

Why do business schools ignore coops? A paper that was rejected from AMLE, JMS and BJM, but taken up by the excellent Management Learning.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Mar 31

In this episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of 'Stinking Rich', explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @profmartinp.bsky.social

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PODCAST: The myth of the heroic billionaire - Transforming Society

In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

buff.ly

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Mar 28

@profmartinp.bsky.social hoped the #Pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real progress demands active, sustained effort: buff.ly/YUnwDJg

Why didn’t we build back better? - Transforming Society

Martin Parker, editor of 'Life After COVID-19', hoped the pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Mar 28

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’ in this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social: buff.ly/Ntre0kK

PODCAST: The myth of the heroic billionaire - Transforming Society

In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Mar 22

A fascinating conversation about social change and activism. Do have a listen.

Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Mar 21

In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social, Jane Holgate and John Page discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible: buff.ly/2OTUVxn

PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society

Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Mar 21

In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social, Jane Holgate and John Page discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible: buff.ly/2OTUVxn

PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society

Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Mar 15

Please repost - I'm not sure how much coverage this is getting in the US media
#TeslaTakedown
#Swasticars

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk

In response to the billionaire’s scorched-earth raids on US government agencies, Tesla chargers and showrooms are being targeted

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Mar 13

In 2018, I wrote a piece that annoyed Musk fanboys. I'd like to carry on annoying them.

theconversation.com/we-dont-need...

We don’t need Elon Musk for an innovative tech industry

Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.

theconversation.com

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Feb 21

@profmartinp.bsky.social Here's one for you and all other excellent critics of the crap taught in #BusinessSchools
sherwood.news/business/job...

The job market is tough for new graduates — even if you dropped $200,000 on an elite MBA

Top MBAs are struggling to land jobs; some are trying their hand at entrepreneurship instead....

sherwood.news

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Feb 20

Please support garment workers in their struggle with Nike by pledging to share 1,000 of their photos
actionnetwork.org/forms/one-th...

One Thousand Photos - One Thousand Shares!

I just took pledge to take part in the One Thousand Photos - One Thousand Shares! Join me in taking action! Garment workers from Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan have o...

actionnetwork.org

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The Bristol Cable @thebristolcable.bsky.social · Feb 18

📻 Latest podcast episode: People Just Do Something, with Bristol Apartheid Free Zone’s Matt and Sasha on building a boycott for Palestine

Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts:

thebristolcable.org/2025/02/list...

People Just Do Something: Bristol Apartheid Free Zone

Matt and Sasha of Bristol Apartheid Free Zone, a boycott on Israeli goods, offer a hands-on lesson in pushing for change in your community.

thebristolcable.org

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Feb 14

Much better. I think I might quote you on that.

Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Feb 14

A tunnel to the other side of the world: what sort of writing can contribute to social change?: Culture and Organization: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A tunnel to the other side of the world: what sort of writing can contribute to social change?

Journal articles are not widely read, so can academics cultivate their skills in genres which are more popular and persuasive? Can we ‘write differently’? This paper presents an account of a childr...

www.tandfonline.com

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Feb 13

Apparently Elon Musk gets cross if you call Teslas 'Swasticars'. Just thought everyone should know that.

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Feb 13

Good try, but now add ideology and give me a second answer.

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Feb 13

A great loss to sociology.

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Martin Parker @profmartinp.bsky.social · Feb 12

@routledgebuseco.bsky.social