Positioning queerness and marginalization with an orientation towards hope at the center of the project of actioning change within the university system, with a range of textual support, from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, to Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, and José Esteban Muñoz.
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“learning is, in its essence, a fundamentally social phenomenon, reflecting our own deeply social nature as human beings capable of knowing”
“We never create anything fresh or valuable in utter isolation; we always create in relation to other people and other things”
A book challenging the hegemony of the written representations of learning, engaged with through a written reflective post.
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The Art of Gathering: the how and why of it
Tracing the anatomy of gathering from conception, to invitation, to specifics of coming together, to ultimate conclusion.
“Cross-disciplinary project-oriented and theme-oriented creative work is no longer a niche for experimental or activist art; rather it has become a mainstream skill requirement for the commercial market.”
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John Dewey on Experience & Education
Dipping into pragmatist and educational theorist John Dewey’s ideas and their application to my project and the current educational environment. “The principle that development of experience comes about through interaction means that education is essentially a social process.”
Haraway, in her thinking, structure, and writing is advocating for messy entanglement, for multiple perspectives—not only human—and lessons from other-than-human ways of being.
“Tentacularity is about life lived along lines—and such a wealth of lines—not at points, not in spheres”
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Care: the politics of interdependence
Reflecting on a manifesto calling for care without boundaries, on the necessity of the notion of care to be structurally embedded across society.
“In order to really thrive we need caring communities. We need localised environments in which we can flourish: in which we can support each other and generate net works of belonging. We need conditions that enable us to act collaboratively to create communities that both support our abilities and nurture our interdependencies.”
A damning portrait of the state of higher education today: neoliberal market forces have corporatised and commercialised universities to death.