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The Public Intellectual: Michael A. Peters

Michael A. Peters Knowledge Capitalism and the “Academic Spring”Monday, 06 June 2012By Michael A Peters | News Analysis Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of NeoliberalismSunday, 10 June 2012By Michael A Peters | News Analysis The Rights of the Child, “Adultism” and the Philosophy of ChildhoodFriday, 25 May 2012By Michael A Peters and Viktor Johansson, Truthout | News Analysis Obama, Education and the End of the American DreamWednesday, 23 May 2012By Michael A Peters, Truthout | News Analysis

Michael A. Peters Knowledge Capitalism and the "Academic Spring"Monday

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Michael A. Peters

The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism
By Michael A. Peters, Truthout | Op-Ed
Sunday, 21 July 2013

Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism
By Michael A. Peters with Marianna Papastephanou, Truthout | Interview
Saturday, 18 May 2013

In a Risk Society, is Consumption Our Only Tool to Influence the World?
Sunday 29 July 2012
By Michael A Peters, Truthout | News Analysis

Anger and Political Culture: A Time for Outrage!
Sunday 22 July 2012
By Michael A Peters, Truthout | Op-Ed

Breaking Open the Digital Commons to Fight Corporate Capitalism
Sunday 15 July 2012
By Michael A Peters, Truthout | News Analysis

Inventing Human Rights
Thursday 22 June 2012
By Michael A Peters, Truthout | Op-Ed

Freedom, Openness and Creativity in the Digital Economy
Wednesday 06 June 2012
By Michael A Peters, Truthout | Op-Ed

The Rights of the Child, “Adultism” and the Philosophy of Childhood
Friday, 25 May 2012
By Michael A Peters and Viktor Johansson, Truthout | News Analysis

Obama, Education and the End of the American Dream
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
By Michael A Peters, Truthout | News Analysis

Knowledge Work Under Cognitive Capitalism
Friday, 18 May 2012
By James Reveley and Michael A Peters, Truthout | Op-Ed

Algorithmic Capitalism and Educational Futures: Informationalism and the Googlization of Knowledge
Friday, 04 May 2012
by: Michael A Peters, Truthout | News Analysis

Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
Monday 29 August 2011
by: Michael A. Peters, Truthout | Interview

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