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Contributions
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Conflicts in the Production of
Knowledge - First round of discussion (February-May
2007)
Knowledge is a common good not because
it exists in nature but because it is produced and reproduced by
living labour and social cooperation. The centrality of knowledge to
the contemporary system of production applies not simply to those
sectors that rest upon innovation but to the entire spectrum of
labour composition. With this in mind, we propose to investigate the
conflicts of knowledge produced on the (always more porous) boundary
between the university and society. In the academic context, we
would like to analyse—always taking concrete circumstances into
account—the ambivalence of oppositional knowledges as challenges to
the institution and processes of domestication.
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Contributions II
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Hierarchisation and autonomous univesities Second round of discussion (25 November 2007- 28 February
2008) In the first round we discussed the
processes of corporatisation, the transnational dimension of the
contemporary university, and forms of resistance and conflict in the
production of knowledge. Now we propose to focus the next three months of discussion on two new axes of discussion. On one hand, we'll discuss the hierarchy within the higher education market, and the university as a place of hierarchisation in the labor market, intersect with lines of race, class and gender. On the other hand, we'll try to imagine the forms of resistance and the flight lines from the hierarchisation processes. How to construct an autonomous university? This is the question for edu-factory project, along the university borders.
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