File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/96-10-10.144, message 170


Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:44:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bryan N. Alexander" <bnalexan-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Educational Practice & Nomad Philosophy


Paul's right: education has become part of work, an extended internship.
Negri writes about the factory society, how the social world is organized
along the factory's old productive lines - and this seems right here.

On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Paul Bains wrote:

> >Does anybody have any really original ideas on non-fascist ed-space?
> >This is a genuine enquiry.
> 
> a 'non-fascist ed-space' would be for starters one which was not compulsory
> and had no grading. The school of humanities at the university of
> technology, sydney has had for many years a pass/fail degree. This is a step
> in the right direction. Altho to get a grant for a higher degree the
> students are thereby penalised. 
> 
> Most interesting ed-spaces have no courses that are completed. There is a
> huge amount of stuff on all this, mainly american (60/70/80's - e.g.
> illich). As was suggested recently in the Sydney Morning Herald,  student
> life has become indistinguishable from work experience in a corporate
> environment. I am v. pessimistic about anything interesting happening within
> a university environment - except by fluke.
> 
> A genuine response.  
> 
> 
> 



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