Please make copies, redistribute-
https://wealthofnegations.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/terms-and-conditio...
(this is part of a larger book that will be coming out soon )
I am interested in Olivier's proposal and I have a background in the arts.
here is the link for the lecture of Agamben that I mentioned, bringing into relation authors as Foucault and Deleuze brought from Descartes' Moderninity Subject, and their Subject/Subjectivity views, after yesterday's class.
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/giorgio-agamben/videos/the-problem-of-subject...
see you
Content:
The aim of this course would be to create a space in which children can help to radically reimagine the current world we live in. What is a young person's vision for a truly transformative world?
Additionally a series of questions regarding world issues could be asked exploring subjects such as food distribution, debt, industy and employment, interstellar space travel, climate change, renewable energy and war and peace. Some initial collaborative research could be useful in finding the most successful ways to ask open ended queestions which would help to spark imaginative thinking.
Logisitics / Format:
The workshop could exist as a collaboration between 6-12 year olds in the kids mediation workshops at Le Magasin and a decentralized group of children and parents tuned into SKype. This could take place one afternoon for 1-2 hours, in June 2012.
Special thanks to Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and Culture Ireland for their generous support.
Hi there. I studied in France. Am still pretty fluent. I'd love to start a weekly conversation class at a (different each time) wine bar downtown on Sunday nights. The level would be advanced/native and we can talk about current events, life, and go freestyle or structure. It would be best to pick a topic and share a few articles each week and discuss them over a glass or two of wine. Perhaps we can eventually move into a book club of sorts.
For now, anyone with solid French who want to keep or improve their level, and francophone expats can convene over un verre.
Hope we can get this off the ground. If you are a native speaker, email me and we'll figure it out from there!
Merci,
Maryam
Hi everyone,
Here is Tonight's Skype chat backchannel transcript -- This is only 1/2 (probably a lot less) of the conversation… the other part was the spoken discussion, which was recorded and will be online soon.
About the chat - I'm pretty excited about the direction of the TPS classes in Grenoble and the forward movement / ongoing active critical exploration component of the project in general! Including the idea of kids being involved - especially after learning how this was a key part of Vidéogazette in the 70s.
Also… It would be really excellent to get that french archival footage translated into English - if anyone's interested in helping with that?
Chat backlog (only what was written, not an audio transcription) below…
Scott
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I'd like to schedule a weekly 3- or 4-session class reading and discussing Richard Sennetts latest publication TOGETHER, The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, published this year (2012).
"Living with people who differ—racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically—is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett discusses why this has happened and what might be done about it.
Participants would learn some massage techniques and the health benefits of massage, and then we do mutual massage in pairs and small groups.