2010/11/24 sergio basbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbasbaum@gmail.com">sbasbaum@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">Dear Trebor and IDCs,<div><br></div><div>It is amazing to see Freire's name invoked in this list.</div><div><br></div><div>Freire belongs to a great generation of Brazilian intelectuals and artists, who had courage to develop very original paths of thinking, and I count him with names like Celso Furtado, Darci Ribeiro, Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Glauber Rocha, for example -- people who were very independent and pointed directions for Brazil to be a fair, creative and innovative society.</div>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Hello all, <br><br>Yes, thanks for this article!<br><br>I also always mention bell hooks when discussing Freire and pedagogy. Her book Teaching to Transgress discusses the importance of emotion in pedagogy, including pleasure and care/affection for those being taught, despite the pretense that education should be cold and objective. <br>
<br>Another great article by giroux which many may be already familiar with is Democracy's Nemesis the Rise of the Corporate University:<br><br><a href="http://csc.sagepub.com/content/9/5/669.short">http://csc.sagepub.com/content/9/5/669.short</a><br>
<br>I read this essay with my class on the University as a Site of Politics in the spring. The students found the article very illuminating and I still cite the example of the harvard sleep institute regularly. Two of the projects that came out of that class were<br>
<br>Picture with Yudof, <a href="http://www.picturewithyudof.info">http://www.picturewithyudof.info</a><br><br>and<br><br>Expedited Diploma Manufacturing Services (a diploma vending machine, taking privatization to its logcial conclusion)<br>
<br><a href="http://edms.tumblr.com/">http://edms.tumblr.com/</a><br> <br></div></div>thanks, <br><br> micha<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>micha cárdenas<br><br>Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, <a href="http://is.gd/daO00" target="_blank">http://is.gd/daO00</a><br>
Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego<br>Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego<br>Artist/Researcher, UCSD School of Medicine<br>Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, <a href="http://bang.calit2.net" target="_blank">http://bang.calit2.net</a><br>
<br>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br><br>gpg: <a href="http://is.gd/ebWx9" target="_blank">http://is.gd/ebWx9</a><br><br>