Re: [AUT] Productivity

["Tahir Wood" <twood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much, I'll check this out.
Tahir

>>> David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx> 04/18/07 10:51 PM >>>
Hi Tahir,

I haven't had the chance to read it yet, but maybe you know this book:

Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization.
Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, & Greig de Peuter (Editors)
University of Toronto Press (2007)


Book Description
Utopian Pedagogy is a critical exploration of educational struggles  
within and against neoliberalism. Editors Mark Coté, Richard J.F.  
Day, and Greig de Peuter, along with a number of innovative voices  
from a variety of different academic fields and political movements,  
examine three key themes: the university as a contested institution,  
the role of the politically engaged intellectual, and experiments in  
alternative education. The collection contributes to the debates on  
the neoliberal transformation of higher education, and to the  
diffusion of social movements that insist it is possible to create  
workable alternatives to the current world order.

This critical examination of the educational dimension of social and  
political struggles is presented by both professional academics and  
activists, many of whom are directly involved in the very experiments  
they discuss. Rescuing and revaluing the concept of utopia, the  
editors and their international contributors propose that utopian  
theory and practice acquire a new relevance in light of the hyper- 
inclusive logic of neoliberalism. Utopian Pedagogy is a challenge to  
the developing world order that will stimulate debate in the fields  
of education and beyond, and encourage the development of socially  
sustainable alternatives.

Contributors:
Michael Albert
Brian Alleyne
Ian Angus
Allan Antliff
Franco Berardi
MarkEdelman Boren
Guido Borio
Edna Brophy
Colectivo Situaciones
Mark Coté
Mariarosa DallaCosta
Richard J.F. Day
Greig de Peuter
Nick DyerWitheford
Henry Giroux
Stuart Hall
Kelly HarrisMartin
Imran Munir
Francesca Pozzi
Gigi Roggero
Shveta Sarda
Sarita Srivastava
Richard Toews
Carlos Alberto Torres
Sebastian Touza
Jerry Zaslove


http://www.amazon.com/Utopian-Pedagogy-Experiments-Neoliberal- 
Globalization/dp/0802086756/




On 18/04/2007, at 11:22 PM, Tahir Wood wrote:

> Now that we have started talking again, it occurs to me that there  
> is a
> question that I might get some help with here. I'm doing some research
> around the notion of productivity. I'm aware of Harry Cleaver's
> treatment of that topic in Reading Capital Politically, but I'm  
> looking
> for more stuff. It stems from my interest in Higher Education and the
> pressures being put on it by changes in the economy. Some of the  
> things
> connected with capitalist productivity that are interesting me are its
> relationships with the following issues:
>
> 1. (un)employment
> 2. urbanisation, and the food supply
> 3. capitalist competition
> 4. prices, falling rate of profit, etc.
> 5. ideological functions (productivity is 'good' etc.)
> 6. Formal/real subsumption, fordism, post-fordism, etc.
> 7. a possible non-capitalist notion of productivity (bearing in mind
> food supplies to urban masses)
> 8. general intellect
> 9. biotechnology, nanotechnology and similar
>
> Readings, ideas are what I'm after, perhaps some discussion here too.
> Tahir
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