Hi Alan, > Oh Marc, This is great! I have a friend who is getting his Phd from the > European Graduate School - studying under Badiou and Agamben. I feel I'm > too old to go back to school, but when I got my MA (Brown University), the > courses were absurd, just close reading of texts to no purpose at all; we > didn't even read the 'continental philosophy' of the period, Sartre etc. > My education has all been self-educated so to speak; Brown was useless.
Well yes - same here, and of course you know this. I'll be bringing some mud from my feet into the University environment. Physically, mentally and metaphorically ;-) I suspect you've been reading all the essential and (perhaps some) less 'officially' accepted material anyway; and Brown University was more a small part of a much larger process of relational understandings, discoveries and explorations. > And your topic seems wonderful! I have already begun writing... >> Congratulations! again Much thanks marc > > Oh Marc, This is great! I have a friend who is getting his Phd from the > European Graduate School - studying under Badiou and Agamben. I feel I'm > too old to go back to school, but when I got my MA (Brown University), the > courses were absurd, just close reading of texts to no purpose at all; we > didn't even read the 'continental philosophy' of the period, Sartre etc. > My education has all been self-educated so to speak; Brown was useless. > And your topic seems wonderful! > > Congratulations! again - Alan > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, marc garrett wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> Entering into education the wrong way round. >> >> I have always researched, studied, made art, written & hacked outside of >> institutional contexts, until now... >> >> I have been offered an MPhil, with a choice to do a PhD after the 2nd >> year. The programme of study falls under - Film/Television/Media Studies >> Research. Although many individuals are studying digital, media art >> within this framework of study. >> >> An edited intro... >> >> How artists engage in the process of taking control of the medium of >> technology, and their own creative voice; is complicated and works at >> many different degrees of self-agency and situation-based needs. The >> Situationists in their own time had to bring about a completely new way >> of being in the world. They changed habits and approaches to their own >> art, introducing new territories of art practice, adapting and moving >> their attention into the realms of film, book distribution and projects >> (happening) in everyday culture. In light of Debord's statement "There >> can be no freely spent time until we possess the modern tools for the >> construction of everyday life. The use of such tools will mark the leap >> from a utopian revolutionary art to an experimental revolutionary art. >> >> My starting question is - How can art maintain its authenticity in a >> Neoliberalist world? >> >> It's a little bit more complex, but the above give's you some idea :-) >> >> wishing you well. >> >> marc >> >> >> >> >>> Birkbeck? I visited David Bohm there! Wonderful! What are you studying? >> love Alan >> >> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, marc garrett wrote: >> >>>> Hi Netbehaviourists, >>>> >>>> From today... >>>> >>>> I am a student at Birkbeck University - a whole new experience for me. >>>> >>>> It's good to become someone else again ;-) >>>> >>>> marc >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>>> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
