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):
Additional Readings:
Mario Tronti, “The Strategy of the Refusal” (1965)
Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash, Escaping Education (selection)
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)