Stupefying and Clear: Found Text as Postpedagogical Vector
Donora A. Rihn
In his book Acts of Enjoyment, Thomas Rickert describes a postpedagogy as one that would “reenchant the everyday via the new, the unthought.” This talk will focus on found text as a postpedagogical vector, as an answer for when writing “happens,” as that which already exists can access the revolutionary.
This talk is inspired by the ways in which I most thrive as a lecturer/writer/whatever when I accept that I have no everloving clue what I am doing (and not in the cute, codified way); I am speaking to the energy of what Avital Ronell means when she says, “To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear," and to found texts and cultural artifacts that reference that point. I think that to do violence to what we currently find "progressive" in teaching and our ideas of it is to do a great service to our students, and ultimately to ourselves. I want us to share our own conceptions of that postpedagogical violence. Influences below.
THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER (dir. Osgood Perkins)
The Chemical Brothers -- "Don't Think"