Moving

MOVING

The time has come to make clear, or not as the case may be. Three years after Rhodes, Glenn gave a talk at GradCAM in Dublin on 25th May. This draws a line under the silence and long hair over this period, though long hair might be grown once more.

Taking stock and considering what next emerges will be a joint decision. Whatever is decided upon, we have confidence that the power of our project will be uncovered.

Glenn and Ruth Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/

All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com/

Capitorg

CAPITORG: EDUCATION AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY – GLENN RIKOWSKI

The Praxis and Pedagogy Group of GradCAM (the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media) Dublin present:

Glenn Rikowski
“Capitorg: Education and the Constitution of the Human Contemporary Society”

Wednesday May 25th 2011
6.00 – 8.00pm
Henry Clarke Room, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin

Our lives are increasingly constrained by the social relations that capital coordinates. The educational discourse of neoliberalism; promoting literacy for job opportunities, economic advancement, and individual success are of paramount importance to producing human capital rather than human beings. Neoliberal literacy includes training students and workers to accept “a new work discipline” and conditioning their will to maximise the accumulation of capital and wealth. As students increase their marketability, they are “always already shaped by the labyrinthine circuits of capitalist desire” (Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur, 2002)

We not just learning, teaching, and living in neoliberal capitalist societies, but are becoming “a new life-form: human-capital” through “the capitalization of humanity” (Glenn Rikowski, 2002).

Flyer for the event: http://www.gradcam.ie/glenn_rikowski.pdf

The Capitorg: http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v10n02/html/kim/kim.html (Many thanks to Soowook Kim: Glenn)