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The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul and the Question of Economic Managerialism in Education
This paper considers the questions that Badiouâs theory of the subject poses to cultures of economic managerialism within education. His argument that radical change is possible, for people and the situations they inhabit, provides a stark challenge to the stifling nature of much current educational climate. In 'Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism', Badiou describes the current universalism of capitalism, monetary homogeneity and the rule of the count. Badiou argues that the politics of identity are all too easily subsumed by the prerogatives of the marketplace and unable to present, therefore, a critique of the status quo. These processes are, he argues, without the potential for truth. What are the implications of Badiouâs claim that education is the arranging of âthe forms of knowledge in such a way that truth may come to pierce a hole in themâ (Badiou, 2005, p. 9)? In this paper, I argue that Badiouâs theory opens up space for a kind of thinking about education that resists its colonisation by cultures of management and marketisation and leads educationalists to consider the emancipatory potential of education in a new light
Destruction, Negation, Subtraction
Pasolini was simultaneously a revolutionary Marxist and a man forever influenced by his religious childhood. So his question was: do the revolutionary becoming of history and political negativity represent a destruction of the tragic beauty of the Greek myths and of the peaceful promise of Christianity? Or do we have to speak of a subtraction where an affirmative reconciliation of beauty and peace becomes possible in a new egalitarian world
Theatrical dialogue in teaching the classics
This article addresses some fundamental affinities between theatre and teaching and is based on emerging work in a long-term experiment which we began in the conference âWeber/Simmel Antagonisms: Staged Dialoguesâ, held at the University of Edinburgh on December 2015. Aimed at exploring the possibilities of the theatrical and dialogical forms for teaching the classics of social and cultural theory, it is a risky experiment whose initial results are presented in this special issue. In order to introduce the dialogues and situate them in the context of the broader project, the article does three things: first, it expounds the process of subjectivation at work in both theatre and teaching and explores some of the modalities of the subjective shift sought for in spectators and students. Second, it explains the specificity of this experiment by contrasting it with other uses of theatrical dialogue in teaching. Finally, before briefly introducing each of the dialogues, the article clarifies the fundamental difference between the dialogical form and debate, as radically separating them is at the heart of any experiment in subjectivation, away from the stirring of opinions
Creer en el mundo, creer en el futuro: Deleuze y la "gran polĂtica" del pensamiento
El propĂłsito del presente trabajo es mostrar en quĂ© medida la afirmaciĂłn deleuziana de una unidad compleja entre vida y pensamiento implica, no sĂłlo una crĂtica radical de (la filosofĂa de) la trascendencia ây, a su travĂ©s, de (la metafĂsica de) la presenciaâ, sino tambiĂ©n una clĂnica (relativa al pensar, a la sensibilidad, al cuerpo y, por ende, al tiempo) de cuyo desarrollo la âfeâ en este mundo (inmanencia), asĂ como la creencia en el porvenir (novaciĂłn), constituyen las dos principales directrices
Thinking Without Authority: Performance Philosophy as the Democracy of Thought
Performance philosophy commences with an impertinent gesture when it describes itself as inaugurating a ânew fieldâ of study. Accompanying that claim is a radical proposition that âperformance thinksâ; that it should be counted as a form of philosophising in its own right. But in what sense can performance be construed as âgenuinelyâ philosophical thought? Taking my cue from Laura Cullâs alignment of performance philosophy with Laruelleâs practice of ânon philosophyâ â and specifically, with its introduction of âdemocracyâ into the dispositives of âstandardâ philosophy in order to challenge its transcendental authority over the Real â I argue that performance philosophy might be seen to enact a similar disruption of the âdispositivesâ of performance theory. This, however, is only partly what is at stake in the fundamental proposition of performance philosophy, and I conclude by suggesting that a more radical proposal lies behind its assertion of a new âfieldâ â one that does not reduce it to an empirical fact, but grasps it as a radical âutopianâ hypothesis designed to âopen upâ the philosophical dimension of performance itself; utopian because what performance offers â seen in this way - is not simply another system of representation but a possible democratic thought of the Real itself
Northern Range Expansion and Invasion by the Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio, of the Churchill River System in Manitoba
Recent fisheries data from northern Manitoba indicates that the Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) has extended the northern limit of its range. Additionally, it also appears that carp have invaded and established viable populations in the Manitoba portion of the Churchill River. Habitat degradation and altered flow regimes as result of hydroelectric development in northern Manitoba may have facilitated the expansion of carp in the region
On waiting for something to happen
This paper seeks to examine two particular and peculiar practices in which the mediation of apparently direct encounters is made explicit and is systematically theorized: that of the psychoanalytic dialogue with its inward focus and private secluded setting, and that of theatre and live performance, with its public focus. Both these practices are concerned with ways in which âlive encountersâ impact on their participants, and hence with the conditions under which, and the processes whereby, the coming-together of human subjects results in recognizable personal or social change. Through the rudimentary analysis of two anecdotes, we aim to think these encounters together in a way that explores what each borrows from the other, the psychoanalytic in the theatrical, the theatrical in the psychoanalytic, figuring each practice as differently committed to what we call the âpublication of livenessâ. We argue that these âredundantâ forms of human contact continue to provide respite from group acceptance of narcissistic failure in the post-democratic era through their offer of a practice of waiting
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