tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post5537651669526704658..comments2023-03-22T19:14:05.988-04:00Comments on notes for the coming community: DISCIPLINE AND PUBLISHDavid Kishikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09287802372745246084noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-3784470920913963692010-02-12T03:14:30.393-05:002010-02-12T03:14:30.393-05:00I thought i may points out some of the recent rupt...I thought i may points out some of the recent ruptures within the current academic halls of the US. Here in the states there has been an upsurge of specifically "radical"* students. Whom have begun to occupy the administration buildings and even begun to take a lot of other space back within the university. Debatabely taking this space and allocating the reason for the activities at the level of better tuition will not spread into everyday life (unless a certain analysis is taken up) yet they have begun to take the theory they read and practice it. This may also have a lot to do with the agitation from anarchist/anti-authoritarians/anti-statist communists. Regardless there are revolts that may rupture from the halls of academia. Though i feel they will fall back into a recuperation of student/teacher reform and the lessing of tuition or meeting a compromise with the administration. <br />Look at the news within the West Coast. Berkley, San Francisco, Fresno, Modesto.. California. <br /><br />*I specifically use the term <i> radical</i> to denote its use within more left circles that has become a word that lost its original meaning or more so is intended meaning is not pointing towards an overall specifity for certain contingents of the anti-political subjects that separate themselves from the left that the media also tries to define as the "ultra-left".Sophia Yves Nalichinhttp://sophiayvesnalichinatriseup.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-78911409479697423792009-12-01T00:46:27.449-05:002009-12-01T00:46:27.449-05:00"college is not meant to perpetuate the revol..."college is not meant to perpetuate the revolutionary desires of the young generation but to block them, or to channel those desires into so-called “productive” or intentionally futile avenues."<br /><br /><br />Are you kidding me? WHAT revolutionary desires? I see nothing but the desire for productive conformity, and that's not for lack of looking...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-44652886880331079972009-04-12T23:43:00.000-04:002009-04-12T23:43:00.000-04:00apparently foucault was pretty actively engaged in...apparently foucault was pretty actively engaged in the university. halperin writes about it in his semi-biographical book "saint foucault."<BR/><BR/>the reference he cites: DIdier Eribon's book Michel Foucault et ses contemporains p 185-209<BR/><BR/>polarbearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-48046223946229543502008-07-02T19:40:00.000-04:002008-07-02T19:40:00.000-04:00Very interesting and very true I think. It applies...Very interesting and very true I think. It applies across the academy as well. <BR/><BR/>But where do we go? While the waters of the academy might be stagnate, the torrents of the internet (the pseudo-saviour of thought and ideas) are more often than not shallow and defiled.<BR/><BR/>I especially agree with this:<BR/><I>One of the most ludicrous myths about the university is that the campus is a hotbed for revolt. You simply need to go into any campus around the world and look into the eyes of the students, and you will see nothing but passivity and dispassion.</I><BR/>Ludicrous indeed.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02031551405442888131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-16306827326668236282008-03-02T10:50:00.000-05:002008-03-02T10:50:00.000-05:00interestinginterestingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-49428414737879610302008-01-23T23:52:00.000-05:002008-01-23T23:52:00.000-05:00PS. I just *love* the term ' discipline and publi...PS. I just *love* the term ' discipline and publish. A very true description of what it is like to be in the university system at the moment (in my case, as a doctoral candidate at a poshly conservative Australian institution).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-19306303969028919402008-01-23T23:51:00.000-05:002008-01-23T23:51:00.000-05:00I'm not sure if Foucault was just blind to his pri...I'm not sure if Foucault was just blind to his privileged position in the academy-machine (and radical theorists can be!). Maybe he was just being strategic? In an interview with Contretemps, John Dalton asked this of Wendy Brown, as part of a longer question:<BR/><BR/>"Why is there a ‘Birth of the Clinic’ and not a ‘Birth of the Department’?"<BR/><BR/>Within her reply Brown noted:<BR/><BR/>"The history of the university has never been one of radical freedom or egalitarianism,<BR/>non-exploitation, non-hierarchy, or anything like that. Au contraire. Remembering this might<BR/>allow us to seize the possibilities we do have, as teachers who still can say pretty much what<BR/>we want in the classroom, teach pretty much the texts that we think ought to be taught,<BR/>write pretty much the books that we think ought to be written. It’s worth remembering this<BR/>at the same time as we do critical political work on the deadening, politically exploitative,<BR/>and increasingly managerial characteristics of the university."<BR/><BR/>It's a similar debate I think! See:<BR/>http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps/6January2006/brown.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-30504631251665955402008-01-01T23:04:00.000-05:002008-01-01T23:04:00.000-05:00welcome backwelcome backAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com