Enduring Schooling: Against Noise, And In The Service Of The Remix
Enduring Schooling: Against Noise, And In The Service Of The Remix

Summary/Abstract: In an age increasingly oblivious of the role of education as a means of genuine exchange, the threat of pervasive corporatization seems to overshadow the distinctions between individualism and individuality, uniformity and unity, to name just a few instances of noise in the communication channel. Th us, there is an indisputable need for sustaining the awareness about at least two vital aspects of education. One concerns its authentic characteristic of conveying information, while the other is considered within the context of societal institutions. Both are in a certain way related to the relationship between the communal and the individual. Both imply education heavily relying on the common currency of exchange between and among humans: language. As such, it is integral to the mutually conditioning relationship between discourse and cultural realities. In the dominance-ridden, ruthlessly accelerated world in pursuit of sweeping commoditization, a hostile climate of mindless competitiveness and unscrupulous utilitarianism, strangely coupled with the myth of progress and accruement of knowledge for its own sake, more oft en than not appears to be infi nitely more a recognizable vocabulary than that of the gift . Reading novels of Lee Rourke and Irvine Welsh through the prism of cultural critique of McKenzie Wark, Jon Savage, Michael Bracewell, Paul Virilio and Terry Eagleton casts light on the potential of the remix as a form of peaceful/peaceable resistance against oppression, and in the service of communal cohesion. It opens up an avenue for the community of learners to think a possibility for reshift ing onto the hic & nunc / anticarpediem pattern. It disambiguates bewildering noise in the battlefi elds of the struggle for power, thereby elucidating the signifi cance of unity and individuality within the questlike endeavors such as education.

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