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Judith Butler | Lacuna 2.0
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July 6, 2009. This post continues the critical pedagogy thread with a brief discussion of political subjectivity in Judith Butler’s work. There is an – admittedly superficial – attempt to link this work to emancipation and the internet. The Psychic Life of Power. Butler therefore differs from social theorists who claim that injurious terms fix the subject into a fixed space and are therefore necessarily debilitating. Making use of Butler’s theories, Eichhorn (2001, p.297) argues that:. It was interesting...
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Zizek in ‘New Left Review’ | Lacuna 2.0
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Zizek in ‘New Left Review’. May 19, 2009. In his latest article, published in the current edition of. May and June 2009), Slavoj Zizek proposes that we recover the antagonism between the ‘included’ and ‘excluded’ which has been lost in contemporary forms of liberal politics. According to Zizek, the predominant liberal notion of democracy focuses on the inclusion of the excluded as minority voices and this leads to the situation where:. Zizek identifies four possible antagonisms:. Zizek’s contention is th...
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Emancipatory Education pt.2 | Lacuna 2.0
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Emancipatory Education pt.2. June 27, 2009. Skirting around the Issue. Posted on June 8th represented an attempt to explore my distrust of the discourses surrounding ‘Global Citizenship’ through a brief description and problematisation of Paulo Freire’s conception of emancipatory education. This post, while it doesn’t mention Paulo Freire explicitly, nevertheless continues in the same vein in that it is an attempt to explore an alternative to the Freire model of critical pedagogy. May, T. (2008)....Ranci...
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June | 2009 | Lacuna 2.0
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June 27, 2009. In Plato’s dialogue, the. Well, what line do we get it from? Try and tell us exactly. And if you don’t want to use numbers, you can just show us. [He hands the slave his stick.] What line? He stares at the drawing.]Honest to god, Socrates, I don’t know! There, see that, Meno? You realize where he is now on the road towards remembering? Yes, that’s right. So isn’t he better off now as regards the thing he didn’t know? Yes, I think he is. Nicholas Burbles (2000) identifies the aporia as a cr...
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July | 2009 | Lacuna 2.0
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July 6, 2009. This post continues the critical pedagogy thread with a brief discussion of political subjectivity in Judith Butler’s work. There is an – admittedly superficial – attempt to link this work to emancipation and the internet. The Psychic Life of Power. Butler therefore differs from social theorists who claim that injurious terms fix the subject into a fixed space and are therefore necessarily debilitating. Making use of Butler’s theories, Eichhorn (2001, p.297) argues that:. Follow “Lacu...
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Lacuna 2.0 | Page 2
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May 8, 2009. According to David Harvey (2006) we can think of space in three different ways. Firstly, Euclidean space can be regarded as fixed and open to calculation and measurement. This is the discrete and enclosed space of single, integrated, unitary, material objects such as individual persons, private property, cities and states etc. And of the convergent forces at work on this space, will obviously need to be carried out in relational terms. According to Massey (2005), the space of Postmodernism t...
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Aporia | Lacuna 2.0
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June 27, 2009. In Plato’s dialogue, the. Well, what line do we get it from? Try and tell us exactly. And if you don’t want to use numbers, you can just show us. [He hands the slave his stick.] What line? He stares at the drawing.]Honest to god, Socrates, I don’t know! There, see that, Meno? You realize where he is now on the road towards remembering? Yes, that’s right. So isn’t he better off now as regards the thing he didn’t know? Yes, I think he is. Nicholas Burbles (2000) identifies the aporia as a cr...
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Politics without the Politics | Lacuna 2.0
https://martian94.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/politics-without-the-politics
Politics without the Politics. May 11, 2009. The leading article in this week’s. A New Pecking Order. 8211; is an analysis of what. Bills as a fight for Europe’s balance of economic power. Europe’s leading economic powers can be divided according to their adherence to two different and opposing economic models. On the one hand,. Continental Europe still tends to favour a larger state, higher taxes, heavier regulation of product and labour markets and a more generous social safety-net. And it is basically...
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“There is only one world” | Lacuna 2.0
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8220;There is only one world”. June 15, 2009. This post was inspired by recent events at SOAS, where nine cleaners were detained and put on the fast track to deportation after between forty and fifty border officials raided an early morning meeting between the entire cleaning staff and SOAS’s cleaning contractor, ISS Cleaning and Hygiene Services on Friday 12th June. The suspicion is that SOAS and ISS management were complicit in the organisation of the raid. However, for Alain Badiou, it is clear that:.
