Whose University? A conversation between David Noble and Nick Dyer-Witheford...
... this coming Monday, at 7:30 at the Toronto Free Gallery. This is a Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry event, which I help to organize together with my friends Greig DePeuter, Christine Shaw, and Heather Haynes:
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Whose University?
Nick Dyer-Witheford and David Noble in Conversation
A Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry Event
Monday, September 26, 2005
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Toronto Free Gallery
660 Queen St. East (near Broadview Ave.)
Admission is free. Donations appreciated.
Back to school special! How are commercial interests reshaping Canadian universities? How is the neoliberal agenda playing out in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences? What is it like to teach and learn in a university in an age of entrepreneurship? Is the university a place of diversity? Relevance? Do students and young academics have just cause to be cynical? Can critics really say that the university today is simply a pawn to profit? What strategies might be used to challenge the corporatization of education? What might the university yet become?
Join us for an intimate conversation around these questions with Nick Dyer-Witheford and David Noble-two of Canada's foremost analysts of global capitalism, higher education, and social movements. Nick and David will talk for about 45 minutes and then the event will be open to audience discussion.
We will also screen John Greyson's Motet for Amplified Voices (2004, 8 min.): A Megaphone Choir occupies Vari Hall to euphonically protest the rustication of Dan Freeman-Moloy and the beating of student demonstrators by cops. "Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help." -- Walter Benjamin
Nick Dyer-Witheford is a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario in London, where he coordinates the Media in the Public Interest program. He is author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism. Dyer-Witheford's essay on the university in the era of cognitive capitalism will be published in a forthcoming collection, Utopian Pedagogy.
John Greyson is a film/video artist who teaches in the Film Department at York University.
Scholar and activist David Noble teaches at York University. His books America by Design, A World without Women, The Religion of Technology, and Digital Diploma Mills have reshaped our understanding of the evolution of technology, religion, and education. His latest book is Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth. Noble has an essay on the contemporary university in the September issue of Canadian Dimension.
About Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry
TSCI organizes education events that inquire into the new commercial enclosures: enclosures on time, space, creativity, thought, ecology, love... We seek to understand how these enclosures work. But combating against cynicism, we also inquire into creative pathways within, against, and beyond the enclosures: pathways of thinking, collaboration, organization, experimentation...
Contact
torontoschool@sympatico.ca
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Whose University?
Nick Dyer-Witheford and David Noble in Conversation
A Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry Event
Monday, September 26, 2005
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Toronto Free Gallery
660 Queen St. East (near Broadview Ave.)
Admission is free. Donations appreciated.
Back to school special! How are commercial interests reshaping Canadian universities? How is the neoliberal agenda playing out in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences? What is it like to teach and learn in a university in an age of entrepreneurship? Is the university a place of diversity? Relevance? Do students and young academics have just cause to be cynical? Can critics really say that the university today is simply a pawn to profit? What strategies might be used to challenge the corporatization of education? What might the university yet become?
Join us for an intimate conversation around these questions with Nick Dyer-Witheford and David Noble-two of Canada's foremost analysts of global capitalism, higher education, and social movements. Nick and David will talk for about 45 minutes and then the event will be open to audience discussion.
We will also screen John Greyson's Motet for Amplified Voices (2004, 8 min.): A Megaphone Choir occupies Vari Hall to euphonically protest the rustication of Dan Freeman-Moloy and the beating of student demonstrators by cops. "Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help." -- Walter Benjamin
Nick Dyer-Witheford is a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario in London, where he coordinates the Media in the Public Interest program. He is author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism. Dyer-Witheford's essay on the university in the era of cognitive capitalism will be published in a forthcoming collection, Utopian Pedagogy.
John Greyson is a film/video artist who teaches in the Film Department at York University.
Scholar and activist David Noble teaches at York University. His books America by Design, A World without Women, The Religion of Technology, and Digital Diploma Mills have reshaped our understanding of the evolution of technology, religion, and education. His latest book is Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth. Noble has an essay on the contemporary university in the September issue of Canadian Dimension.
About Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry
TSCI organizes education events that inquire into the new commercial enclosures: enclosures on time, space, creativity, thought, ecology, love... We seek to understand how these enclosures work. But combating against cynicism, we also inquire into creative pathways within, against, and beyond the enclosures: pathways of thinking, collaboration, organization, experimentation...
Contact
torontoschool@sympatico.ca
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