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 > > > [email protected] > > > 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 > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
