MachineMachine /stream - tagged with pegagogy http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/91 In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for author and receptor—is completely lost. The emphasis is on producing communication vessels that are static and consumable objects, for which the sign has to be well executed. In this kind of art, execution has to reach the point of desirability, which in turn defines success. Teaching and instruction are generally used as synonyms, something that reflects an implicit pedagogical ideology. The word instruction is a homonym: it refers to… ]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:51:00 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/91