University cuts, creative industries, and the digital economy: a conversation between Tiziana Terranova and Jussa Parikka.
This conversation took place in early November – actually just before the first mass demonstrations by students and academic staff in the UK – an event after which we have seen further resistance acts of various kinds, from more aggressive expressions of anger to such as the foundation of the University for Strategic Optimism (http://universityforstrategicoptimism.wordpress.com/). Resistance does not just exist; it needs to be invented, always anew. This interview was published in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto (http://www.ilmanifesto.it/) on 14 November 2010 (in Italian), and is now here available in English as well. This version is the original, and slightly longer as well. Of course, what we have seen since this interview was conducted was a development of certain themes; for example, the disagreement within Russell group universities seems to be escalating with students for example in Cambridge demanding that the university raises objections to the cuts; occupations of various universities are similar signs of calls for student-focus of a different sort than we get with the "tick-the-box" exercises of student happiness (the National Student Survey); the libdems are clearly having severe internal problems; the police use of dubious tactics against demonstrators are raising questions, and pointing towards a very scary response from the officials towards the resistance. Jussi Parikka http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/university-cuts-creative-industries-and-the-digital-economy-a-conversation-between-tiziana-terranova-and-jussa-parikka/2011/02/08 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
