Week 6:  Counter Education, Archival Methods

March 5:

Eli Meyerhoff, “This Quiet Revolution": Alternative Modes of Study with the Experimental College at San Francisco State,” Cultural Studies (2019) (please read this!)

Eva Díaz, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College (Chicago: 2019) (select a chapter to read)

S.E. Eisterer, ed. In the Daylight of Our Existence: Architectural History and the Promise of Queer Theory (gta Verlag: 2026) (read introduction and look through book)


Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister, eds. Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press: 2022) (choose a selection of chapters to read)

Blueprint for Counter Education (1970) (reprinted by Inventory Press)

Radical Pedagogies and Blueprint for Counter Education are in Thorp Library in the English department. I don’t have digital copies, so make sure to stop by sometime in the next week to look through them.

Spend time looking at digitized archival materials from experiments in education:


  • Black Mountain College   
    • I’ve linked to the North Carolina State archive, which has thousands of digitized documents, but you might also look at other online archives

  • San Francisco State Strike Archive
                + a handful of catalogues from the Experimental College

Archives:


Additional:

Tools for Radical Study: A Collection of Manuals (KUNCI Study Forum and Collective)

Jean-Paul Sartre interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1968)

Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry, ed.  Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco and Joseph Bathanti (The University of North Carolina Press: 2025)


Blueprint for Counter Education (1970)






Nazarbazi (2022)