Sunny Dhillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 2097072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunny Dhillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunny |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhillon |
| SIGNATURE | DHILLON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6632-701X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The ostensible originality of ungrading
This article contributes to the emerging literature about ungrading within Higher Education across disciplines in the anglosphere. The piece offers a critical take on the apparent originality of ungrading practices. Such practices appear on a spectrum, from minor adjustments to summative grades by alternating the numerical with the alphabetized form or vice versa, to replacing grades on a module via oral and/or written feedback. Whilst ungrading …
Visual accountability in transnational border policing: Frontex’s use of X (formerly Twitter) to visualize the boundaries of its account-ability at sea
This paper examines how visual communication is becoming a key aspect of migration governance, particularly in shaping accountability within border policing. Focusing on Frontex, the European Union’s Border and Coast Guard agency, this study analyses how the agency uses images on X (formerly Twitter) to define its ‘account ability,’ signalling its competence and responsibilities. Through a visual intertextual approach, which considers both images…
Confronting well-being and mental health in the 'therapeutic university: Implications for Educators, Students and the Curriculum
This is a conceptual paper that examines the emergence of the 'therapeutic university' and considers its potential implications for policy and practice in Higher Education (HE).Concern over the wellbeing and mental health of university students both in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally has recently intensified in media, academic and political spheres, to the extent that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly offering a di…
The Trickster archetype: Education to stupefy
Contra the teleological paradigm of the Hero, this article argues that incorporating an ethic of the Trickster archetype may facilitate greater critical thinking and metacognition within contemporary neoliberal Education Studies learning environments in UK Higher Education. Echoing Lewis’ call for an education to stupefy, as well as Bojesen’s argument for treating Education Studies as a labour of the negative, I present the Trickster archetype as…
Adorno, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Critical Theory: Negative Dialectics and Non-identity Thinking
This paper explores the relationship between the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Jiddu Krishnamurti. It focuses upon how both thinkers employ a determinately negative epistemology and revise Hegelian dialectics as a manner of ratiocination to resolve socio-political problems. It is argued that Krishnamurti’s negative epistemology is rendered more robust when read along with Adorno’s critical theory, aesthetic theory, and notions of negative dial…
Utopia as Akairological Rupture
This article argues for a reconceptualization of utopia as akairological rupture. Its central thesis disputes the conventional reading of utopia as a teleological goal to be realized by a social collective. Thus rather than viewing the potentiality of utopia as a prescribed ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants live in harmony, I argue that it should be seen as an akairological rupture, manifested through a determinately negative, individual, appr…
The Dionysian Free Jazz of John W. Coltrane
1. Introduction This paper argues that the free jazz of saxophonist John W. Coltrane (1926–1967) satisfies criteria laid out in Friedrich W. Nietzsche's and Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theories to be qualified as utopian. In his later avant-garde compositions, commencing with Impressions (1961), Coltrane's works embody a qualitative Dionysian charge, which qualifies them as utopian as per the etymological root of “utopia” as eu-topos, or a “goo…
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The Dionysian Free Jazz of John W. Coltrane
1. Introduction This paper argues that the free jazz of saxophonist John W. Coltrane (1926–1967) satisfies criteria laid out in Friedrich W. Nietzsche's and Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theories to be qualified as utopian. In his later avant-garde compositions, commencing with Impressions (1961), Coltrane's works embody a qualitative Dionysian charge, which qualifies them as utopian as per the etymological root of “utopia” as eu-topos, or a “goo…
Adorno, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Critical Theory: Negative Dialectics and Non-identity Thinking
This paper explores the relationship between the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Jiddu Krishnamurti. It focuses upon how both thinkers employ a determinately negative epistemology and revise Hegelian dialectics as a manner of ratiocination to resolve socio-political problems. It is argued that Krishnamurti’s negative epistemology is rendered more robust when read along with Adorno’s critical theory, aesthetic theory, and notions of negative dial…
Utopia as Akairological Rupture
This article argues for a reconceptualization of utopia as akairological rupture. Its central thesis disputes the conventional reading of utopia as a teleological goal to be realized by a social collective. Thus rather than viewing the potentiality of utopia as a prescribed ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants live in harmony, I argue that it should be seen as an akairological rupture, manifested through a determinately negative, individual, appr…
The Trickster archetype: Education to stupefy
Contra the teleological paradigm of the Hero, this article argues that incorporating an ethic of the Trickster archetype may facilitate greater critical thinking and metacognition within contemporary neoliberal Education Studies learning environments in UK Higher Education. Echoing Lewis’ call for an education to stupefy, as well as Bojesen’s argument for treating Education Studies as a labour of the negative, I present the Trickster archetype as…
The ostensible originality of ungrading
This article contributes to the emerging literature about ungrading within Higher Education across disciplines in the anglosphere. The piece offers a critical take on the apparent originality of ungrading practices. Such practices appear on a spectrum, from minor adjustments to summative grades by alternating the numerical with the alphabetized form or vice versa, to replacing grades on a module via oral and/or written feedback. Whilst ungrading …
Visual accountability in transnational border policing: Frontex’s use of X (formerly Twitter) to visualize the boundaries of its account-ability at sea
This paper examines how visual communication is becoming a key aspect of migration governance, particularly in shaping accountability within border policing. Focusing on Frontex, the European Union’s Border and Coast Guard agency, this study analyses how the agency uses images on X (formerly Twitter) to define its ‘account ability,’ signalling its competence and responsibilities. Through a visual intertextual approach, which considers both images…
Confronting well-being and mental health in the 'therapeutic university: Implications for Educators, Students and the Curriculum
This is a conceptual paper that examines the emergence of the 'therapeutic university' and considers its potential implications for policy and practice in Higher Education (HE).Concern over the wellbeing and mental health of university students both in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally has recently intensified in media, academic and political spheres, to the extent that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly offering a di…
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