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)
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)
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