Week 8: Deschooling, Convivial Tools

March 25:

Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1987) (selection)

Ivan Illich, “Why We Must Disestablish School,” “Phenomenology of School,” and “Learning Webs,” in Deschooling Society (Doubleday: 1971)

Raqs Media Collective, “How to Be An Artist By Night,” Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), ed. Steven Henry Madoff (MIT: 2009)

Manuel Callahan, “Repairing the community: UT Califas and convivial tools of the commons,” ephemera: theory & politics in organization (2019)

Raúl Romero Gallardo and  Xavie Gálvez, “The Rebel Education of the Zapatistas,” The Funambulist (2023)



Projects (to peruse):
     
  • Materia Abierta 
  • Anti-University of London
  • Bathers Library
  • Universidad de la Tierra (website is down)


Additional Readings:

Mario Tronti, “The Strategy of the Refusal” (1965)

Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash, Escaping Education (selection)