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[Chinese] Authority is expressed in the use of the Classics (both Chinese and Western) in today’s Chinese educational system. Memory of what it means to be Chinese. That Authority is expressed in the “participatory” way that the Chinese understand “Marxism.” That Authority is expressed in the care taken that no one can publicly undermine trust in t
... See moreCalum Nicholson – An Anthropology of our Age of Discord
youtube.comFor the next few decades, we may be left with a very different landscape of contending imaginaries. Some will be ‘anti-imaginaries’. Politicians can choose to concentrate on dreams and hope on the one hand or fears and nightmares on the other, or they can opt for a pragmatic middle ground (perhaps one where the public are asked to slumber quietly).
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
La educación tiene un papel principalísimo. Es terrible hoy el desprecio por las humanidades en la educación básica. Se le trata como si fuera una materia prescindible, como si estuviera reñida con la formación práctica y moderna de las nuevas generaciones.
Mario Vargas Llosa • La Civilización del Espectáculo
how was it that Disraeli, a bankrupt Jewish school dropout and trashy novelist, came to exert such a hold on the Victorian Conservative Party,
Edward Young • Disraeli: or, The Two Lives
The 80s were the period when capitalist realism was fought for and established, when Margaret Thatcher’s doctrine that ‘there is no alternative’ – as succinct a slogan of capitalist realism as you could hope for – became a brutally self-fulfilling prophecy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
new roles for museums and galleries, suggesting how they could showcase alternative futures just as they tell us about our past.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Following the 20th-century philosopher Michael Oakeshott, though, we might conclude that arguments for the instrumentally based curricula of today’s commentators are misplaced. For Oakeshott, the subjects of the curriculum—history, mathematics, science, and so on—offer ways of capturing and understanding the world; they are a precious legacy passed
... See moreGary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
curator Robert Storr, who plays a key role in the Biennale