VOLUME 1(2) • 2013
A RECONSIDERATION OF FOUCAULT’S “MARXISM” IN RELATION TO THE THOUGHT OF LOUIS ALTHUSSER
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to supplement existing studies that have explored Foucault’s “Marxist” inclinations by means of a focused consideration of the thought of the person who challenged Foucault with an entirely different version of Marxism – his friend and mentor, Louis Althusser. ..
THE BECOMING RENT OF PROFIT? • THE NEW ARTICULATION OF WAGE, RENT AND PROFIT
ABSTRACT. In the transition toward cognitive capitalism, the transformations in the social organization of production are strictly connected to those in income distribution. This evolution is deeply characterized by the re-emerging of the rent under different forms. The aim of this article is to pro..
ACADEMIC FIELD REFLEXIVITY • “INSTITUTIONAL LITERACY” AS CONDITION FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
ABSTRACT. In “Academic Field Reflexivity,” Susanne Maria Weber addresses the university as an institutionalized and cultural setting. Following a sociological view on social and cultural inequalities in educational fields of power, University and Higher Education is being analyzed regarding the “hid..
CIRCLES, BORDERS AND CHRONOTOPE: EDUCATION AT THE BOUNDARY?
ABSTRACT. This paper argues for the re-conceptualization of 21st century education as a boundary encounter rather than as a kind of border-crossing experience. Drawing on the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and members of his “circles,” boundaries are presented as opportunities to meet “other.” They are..
AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH TO THE ART OF LIVING
ABSTRACT. This article engages with theories about the art of living and the good life, especially Schmid’s concept “Lebenskunst”, as well as with relevant findings from positive psychology, taking an educational point of view. An argument is made that it is important for education to refocus on the..
INVOLVED IN HUMANKIND – NATURE, VIRTUE AND THE GOOD WE DESIRE FOR OURSELVES AND FOR OTHERS
ABSTRACT. In his famous lines: “No man is an island...” from the Devotions on Emergent Occasions, John Donne offers a poetic reflection on the intimate connection of all human beings. The contrasting imagery of the island and the sea, the continent from which no clod of earth can be washed away with..
REWORKING THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIALIST PROGNOSIS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: MID-RANGE CONTINGENCY AND A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT. The original scientific socialist prognosis provides a powerful point of departure for re-thinking socialism in the 21st century. However, from its 19th century vantage-point, it falls short of predicting capitalism’s final stages and decisively underestimates the contingency of social cha..
RADICAL OPENNESS: CREATIVE INSTITUTIONS, CREATIVE LABOR AND THE LOGIC OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the conceptual relations between “openness” and “creativity,” creativity as the new development paradigm, and creative labor as a way of beginning a discussion of “radical openness” and its applications to institutions in the age of cognitive capitalism. This paper was ..
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE CULTURES
ABSTRACT. This paper reviews claims for the knowledge economy and the changed significance of knowledge. It proposes a theory of public knowledge cultures to chart a new understanding of the pervasiveness and economies of scale of information and its status as a code for economies and wider social a..
INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE CULTURES
The world of higher education has been transformed in the couple of last decades and will continue to change apace in the next decades. The development of the knowledge, learning and digital economies emphasize the changing significance of intellectual capital and tacit knowledge in the forms of hum..