Comments on: … is Universal Teaching? http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/ A working notebook Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Alvin http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-1520 Sun, 13 May 2007 07:32:54 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-1520 Hey, thanks for that quick summary of Jacotot's methods. I used to do something like that myself when I was in first grade. Autodidactics should be the first thing one learns in school. Hey, thanks for that quick summary of Jacotot’s methods. I used to do something like that myself when I was in first grade. Autodidactics should be the first thing one learns in school.

]]> by: Nate http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-172 Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:32:45 +0000 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-172 hi Daniel, Another Ranciere piece I recommend is an essay I've just read "The Archaeomodern Turn" in Walter Benjamin and the Demand of History, ed. Michael P. Steinberg. After the first two pages or so it gets very clear and is quite interesting. best wishes, Nate hi Daniel,
Another Ranciere piece I recommend is an essay I’ve just read “The Archaeomodern Turn” in Walter Benjamin and the Demand of History, ed. Michael P. Steinberg. After the first two pages or so it gets very clear and is quite interesting.
best wishes,
Nate

]]> by: Daniel Graham http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-168 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:34:02 +0000 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-168 Nate I'm in the throws of looking at Ranciere's (and Agamben, Lyotard, et al) for research into Indigenous discourses (including the exclusive/excluding nature of Indigenous Education) here in Australia. 'The Ignorent Schoolmaster' will, as such, be high on my list of readings in the new year, along with 'Aesthetics and Politics.' The latter looks like a real beauty! In terms of the 'distribution of the sensible' this looks particularly Lyotard, via Kant's idea of the communis sensus and Saussure's community of readers and then the ubiquitous Wittegenstein and his Language Games. Interesting genealogy. I'm really curious to know what your own interests are in the field. Perhaps you'd care to contact me via email - a less public medium - to have a chat? @ daniel.graham@batchelor.edu.au Nate
I’m in the throws of looking at Ranciere’s (and Agamben, Lyotard, et al) for research into Indigenous discourses (including the exclusive/excluding nature of Indigenous Education) here in Australia. ‘The Ignorent Schoolmaster’ will, as such, be high on my list of readings in the new year, along with ‘Aesthetics and Politics.’ The latter looks like a real beauty!
In terms of the ‘distribution of the sensible’ this looks particularly Lyotard, via Kant’s idea of the communis sensus and Saussure’s community of readers and then the ubiquitous Wittegenstein and his Language Games. Interesting genealogy.
I’m really curious to know what your own interests are in the field. Perhaps you’d care to contact me via email - a less public medium - to have a chat? @
daniel.graham@batchelor.edu.au

]]> by: Nate http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-165 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:30:57 +0000 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-165 hi Daniel, I think 'secondary work' is a bit of a stretch with regard to my notes here, but I'll take the complement. Please let me know what you eventually work out regarding Ranciere. He's a figure I'm quite interested in, but I don't know what to make of some of his work. His more straightforward work (at least ostensibly so) is a real joy, like his interventions around historiography debates and their links to the contemporary political positions trying to mobilize different narrative, those are great, or his vitriolic remarks about Althusser from the time of his split with the old man. Good stuff. I read Disagreement recently and big parts of it were over my head, I don't have a grounding in the Greeks or people like Arendt, so sometimes it's like I'm just overhearing his half of a phone conversation, I don't understand who he's engaging or how or why. Have you had a chance to look at the new short volume of his? I think it's called Aesthetics and Politics. It's an interview or two (I find him clearer in interview), in which he lays out a bit more of what he means by the idea of 'distribution of the sensible', which in a way bridges a type of poetics and a type of politics. Also if you've not read the Ignorant Schoolmaster I recommend it highly. It reads quickly and is quite pretty, and still has a number of sections that, to me at least, are quite provocative and powerful. Best, Nate hi Daniel,

I think ’secondary work’ is a bit of a stretch with regard to my notes here, but I’ll take the complement. Please let me know what you eventually work out regarding Ranciere. He’s a figure I’m quite interested in, but I don’t know what to make of some of his work. His more straightforward work (at least ostensibly so) is a real joy, like his interventions around historiography debates and their links to the contemporary political positions trying to mobilize different narrative, those are great, or his vitriolic remarks about Althusser from the time of his split with the old man. Good stuff. I read Disagreement recently and big parts of it were over my head, I don’t have a grounding in the Greeks or people like Arendt, so sometimes it’s like I’m just overhearing his half of a phone conversation, I don’t understand who he’s engaging or how or why.

Have you had a chance to look at the new short volume of his? I think it’s called Aesthetics and Politics. It’s an interview or two (I find him clearer in interview), in which he lays out a bit more of what he means by the idea of ‘distribution of the sensible’, which in a way bridges a type of poetics and a type of politics. Also if you’ve not read the Ignorant Schoolmaster I recommend it highly. It reads quickly and is quite pretty, and still has a number of sections that, to me at least, are quite provocative and powerful.

Best,
Nate

]]> by: Daniel Graham http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-164 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:52:04 +0000 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-164 Nate As you know, it's a very slim book, but I have spent a couple of months on it - certainly it requires close consideration. Having also spent a good deal of time studying Hannah Arendt, there are overlapping themes and, at times, both writers work from a phenomenology that is difficult to unravel - more so with Ranciere. The temporal dimensions in Ranciere are particularly 'cloaked.' With Arendt, the narrative is more or less linear and the concept of 'politics' remains just that - conceptual. With Ranciere I really can't say (need to read more secondary works like your's). His poetics is, perhaps, more pronounced than Arendt's and therefore the density of the writing itself conceals some of the spatio-temporal dimensions from which he is working from? Nate
As you know, it’s a very slim book, but I have spent a couple of months on it - certainly it requires close consideration. Having also spent a good deal of time studying Hannah Arendt, there are overlapping themes and, at times, both writers work from a phenomenology that is difficult to unravel - more so with Ranciere. The temporal dimensions in Ranciere are particularly ‘cloaked.’ With Arendt, the narrative is more or less linear and the concept of ‘politics’ remains just that - conceptual. With Ranciere I really can’t say (need to read more secondary works like your’s). His poetics is, perhaps, more pronounced than Arendt’s and therefore the density of the writing itself conceals some of the spatio-temporal dimensions from which he is working from?

]]> by: Nate http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-160 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:42:53 +0000 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-160 hi Daniel, Thanks. I'd love to hear what you make of the Shores book. I read it quickly and very little of it stuck with me. Yours, Nate hi Daniel,
Thanks. I’d love to hear what you make of the Shores book. I read it quickly and very little of it stuck with me.
Yours,
Nate

]]> by: Daniel Graham http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-158 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:54:31 +0000 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/is-universal-teaching/#comment-158 Thanks for this article. Having just read 'The Shores of Politics,' I can contexualise the reading far better. Thanks for this article. Having just read ‘The Shores of Politics,’ I can contexualise the reading far better.

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