Education and Literacy
Picking up on two of the themes scattered throughout this blog, i.e. literacy and education, for example as discussed in The Re-uses of Literacy, Lesley B. Cormack writes that prior to the early modern...
View ArticleRanciere-ology
According to Samuel Chambers (2014), Jacques Ranciere’s pedagogy can be called radical because it challenges traditional pedagogy at its heart, which is to say it challenges explanation. Ranciere...
View ArticleKnowledge, Stability, Print Technology
Type/WriterThe book, or at least the text/book considered in an academic context, is a source of intelligence, Ranciere argues, an intelligence equally accessible to the student as the teacher...
View ArticleHonig: Antigone and contemporary democratic theory
In a review of Bonnie Honig's "Antigone, Interrupted", Andres Fabian Henao Castro (2014) points out that the dominant reception of the play that Honig contests is a de-politicising one, that is to say,...
View ArticleEducational labour
Given the changes that have occurred since 2010, can higher education in the UK be said to constitute 'a system'? Rather, do we not have a proliferation of systems or a series of systems and...
View ArticleVariations on the theme of a third generation university
As mentioned in The familiar, yet strange, topological inversions and reversions of the flyped university, Gary Hall develops a concept of the ‘third generation university'. He suggests that the ‘third...
View ArticleBraidotti, revisited
Link to Braidotti discussing crisis, capital and austerityRosi Braidotti argues that her “monistic philosophy of becomings” (2013: 35) rests on the idea that matter is intelligent and self-organising....
View ArticleSolidarity, the self-divided and othernesses
(a) Michelle Tokarczyk (2014: 865-867), writing from Goucher College, Baltimore, points out that ‘solidarity’ is a core term in working-class literature and culture. While middle class culture...
View ArticleDoing justice to the other
Berry's Kosher Village(1)Kelly Oliver (2004) argues that contemporary debates on multiculturalism and justice have focused on the notion of ‘recognition'. This is evident, for example, in the work of...
View ArticleMore on generations of universities
See previous post: Variations on the theme of a third generation universitya) Ideas of the UniversityBill Readings (1996: 54) suggests that the modern university has had three determining ideas. First,...
View ArticleWe/They; Community/Dissensus [Aspects of The University of Dissensus: the...
"I agree not only with Readings, but also with Derrida, Lyotard, Diane Elam, Gerald Graff, and many others who have in different ways called for the creation of a university of dissensus, that is, one...
View ArticleWe, The People [Aspects of The University of Dissensus: the Community of...
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Art Is a Small Adjustment embroidery"The problem [for Plato, with the equality of democracy,] is not the always more but the anyone at all, the sudden revelation of the ultimate...
View ArticleThe scene of teaching; renewed; the pedagogic relation [Aspects of The...
"Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root." James Joyce, Finnegans WakeSee also: The scene of teaching, part 1; part 2; part 3; part 4."This is the ethical demand of online...
View ArticleDemos [Ethnos] [Aspects of the University of Dissensus: the Community of...
In Ranciere’s (2004: 6) reading of “the classics”, he notes that Aristotle defines three axiai, i.e. parts or ranks, of the community. They are: the wealth of the few, the oligoi; the virtue or...
View ArticleThe Performative in The University of Dissensus
The spectre haunting EuropeJ. Hillis Miller (1995: 135) argues that if it is presumed that every other is wholly other, as Derrida (2005: 232) suggests, “tout autre est tout autre”, the altogether...
View ArticleLaughter and the University of Dissensus
Anca Parvelescu (2004) brings Bill Readings’ The University in Ruins into relationship with Jacques Ranciere’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster, arguing that, although using very different vocabularies and...
View ArticleRanciere on Lyotard on Dissensus [Aspects of the University of Dissensus]
Ranciere (2011: 9) outlines what is at stake in his discussion of Lyotard’s late work. The issue concerns the understanding of dissensus which, Ranciere argues, Lyotard turned into a new form of...
View ArticleRanciere on Derrida on Dissensus [Aspects of the University of Dissensus]
Ranciere (2011: 12) notes that, although sharing a similar problematique with Derrida, for example, the inter-relationship of dis-identification and the status of anachronism, he maintains a distance...
View ArticleRanciere’s (philosophical) practice
Rather than founding or deconstructing, Ranciere (2011: 14) seeks to blur the boundaries that separate the genres and levels of discourse. One name that he gives to this practice is 'poetics of...
View ArticleDerrida on Deconstruction
This post continues "Ill-fitting notes on Destruktion and deconstruction"PreambleIn "Ill-fitting notes on Destruktion and deconstruction" (Parsons, 2013), it was noted that Derrida took the term...
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