March 2010
11 posts
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“Thinking about the present can be a difficult, disorienting and sometimes even...”
– from 21st Century Theory Reading Group
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“Just because you can measure eyeballs and pageviews doesn’t mean you...”
– Seth’s Blog: Driveby culture and the endless search for wow (via wildcat2030)
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1. THE DIALECTIC OF TAKING SIDES—RETHINKING THE TRADITIONS OF POLITICAL EDUCATION
Politicization
In order to arrive at such a deconstructive concept of education I would like to begin with the histories of its politicization within twentieth-century modernity. In fact, the movement to politicize pedagogy started in the 1930s, when artists of the Left started to appropriate educational techniques...
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Unglamorous Tasks: What Can Education Learn from... →
“In this text I want to examine the traditional tasks of education as well as the possibility of thinking about the educational as something that overcomes the function of reproducing knowledge and becomes something else—something unpredictable and open to the possibility of a knowledge production that, in tones strident or subtle, would work to challenge the apparatus of value-coding. Our...
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Literature for Real > Chronicle of HE →
“Fine writing, no matter the genre, remains fine writing. However, given the choice between reading a middling novel and a middling work of nonfiction, the latter wins every time, offering at least some compensatory lode of information. I am the kind of reader—and we are legion—who is a sucker for the aura of the real.
Two zesty, ambitious, polemical new books—Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A...
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“The idea that there could exist a state of communication that would allow games...”
– Michel Foucault: ‘The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom’ (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“It is hard not to be intimidated by New Left Review. At times, the journal can...”
– Stefan Collini on New Left Review at 50 via @aldaily
very often, i feel that large swathes of useful intellectual labor come filled to the knee with contrivance…
give me a reason, don’t give me gestures.. or names.
“What other publication would take out a full-page...
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“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it...”
– - Tagore via @hangingnoodles + @ebertchicago
“The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark;
It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.”
- Elvis Costello