This “exceptionally lucid study of actually existing practices of ‘open education’” presents a critical and overtly political overview of open educational resources. It argues that the usual array of “solutions” addressing seemingly discrete problems in higher education — mostly technological fixes that allegedly offer cheaper, more efficient, and/or more scalable — miss both the opportunity and the need to rethink basic assumptions embodied and embedded in universities and colleges. The project was well underway when the other authors — Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Gary Hall, Shaun Hides, and Simon Worthington — invited me to contribute, and they were gracious enough to give me co-authorial credit. The cover price for a 128-page book (US42 paperback) about resources that are “free” — often as in beer, always as in speech — exemplifies a major problems for higher education; fortunately, the book is freely (and legally) available in electronic form here. The publisher’s webpage for it is here.