Punk and education research: ‘Don’t want to be taught to be no fool’

Vass, Greg; Heffernan, Amanda

doi:10.1177/00345237231172951

Research in Education

2023

DOI: 10.1177/00345237231172951

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Punk and education research: ‘Don’t want to be taught to be no fool’

Greg Vass

Amanda Heffernan

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The death of thought: Reading Bataille in the ruins of a university

Allen

2023

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This paper takes on and explores the disturbing and perhaps counter-intuitive notion that the university is the place where the intellect goes to die. This idea is explored alongside Georges Bataille’s suggestion that the death of thought might actually be a worthy pursuit and only thought which seeks its own limits is worth striving for. The deleterious effects of the university upon thought are nonetheless contrasted to Bataille’s own attempts to take thought to the point of its expiration. The key difference between the ‘teaching of death’ that Bataille has in mind, and the enactment of the death of thinking that the university achieves is this: Bataille seeks, however impossibly, to bring death “into the field of vision”. Academic knowledge production, by contrast, with its systematism, its rigor, its proceduralism and its subsumption by work, merely abandons the thinking subject to the inevitable result, which for Bataille, is unthinking servility, a premature, utterly suppressed, and domesticated, death-in-life.

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The death of thought: Reading Bataille in the ruins of a university

Allen

2023

Research in Education

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Punk and education research: ‘Don’t want to be taught to be no fool’

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