I became really attached to Sullivan et al's article about organizational critique from a few years ago, so I immediately found something to like in Stuart Blythe's piece about agency within organizations. As he sets up the paradox of agency, though, I think he simply doesn't offer too many strategies for taking agency within organizations.

I've been really taken by the idea of creating "underground places" where our students can practice/enact discourses that subvert our course, our course discourses, the university discourses, etc. Part of me wants to agree with him wholeheartedly and argue that we need such spaces, but another part of me, perhaps the part that used to teach high school, feels somewhat uncomfortable about it.