Texts & Commentary

this process of differentiation and specialization has taken place chaotically, without clear and precise principles, without a well thought out and consciously fixed plan.

, The Organization of Education and Culture

How can my learning community gain digital literacy skills across such disparate content areas? Gramsci imagines a “creative school,” where original, spontaneous methods of research can be pursued in seminars, libraries and laboratories.

I’m not one of those who try to elicit the effects of power at the level of ideology. Indeed I wonder whether, before one poses the question of ideology, it wouldn’t be more materialistic to study first the question of the body and the effects of power on it. Because what troubles me with these analyses which prioritise ideology is that there is always presupposed a human subject on the lines of the model provided by classical philosophy, endowed with a consciousness which power is then thought to seize on. …It was on the basis of power over the body that a physiological, organic knowledge of it became possible.

, Body/Power

Simply building labs for our members to explore digital literacy won’t work, because of “biopower.”

From any standard or rubric, I think its fair to say our PD failed its objectives. One data point: I spent 5 minutes troubleshooting why a member could see the Post Training Satisfaction Survey on her screen, but couldn’t type into it. Handing the problem off to a fellow member, he saw the problem, she was trying to click into the Zoom shared screen.

In consultative situations stakeholders treat each other as allies or misguided foes. No enemies exist here. The parties know and trust each other; their common interests vastly outweigh conflicting ones; and interactants work in mutually supportive ways. The injuries inflicted in such situations are unintended, and relatively inconsequential—resulting truly from mistakes, ineptitude, neuroses, and such like. Consultative situations demand consultative strategies and tactics—non-coercive, communicative actions in which information and resources are freely shared between and among stakeholders.

Even though I expected, indeed, designed the PD to gauge biopower resistances, my patience was stressed when actually within huracan. I held the rudder tight, upon reflection I should have let go much earlier than the 5 minutes I did. When in a UFT-CWE DL-PD, no malfeasance is willed towards me.