{"id":6639,"date":"2014-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulegoa.org\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2022-04-29T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:53:59","slug":"from-a-university-without-condition-writing-deferred-and-lesser-knowledge-aurora-fernandez-polanco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulegoa.org\/en\/from-a-university-without-condition-writing-deferred-and-lesser-knowledge-aurora-fernandez-polanco-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM A \u201cUNIVERSITY WITHOUT CONDITION\u201d: WRITING DEFERRED AND LESSER KNOWLEDGE. AURORA FERN\u00c1NDEZ POLANCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our era of academic capitalism we are still comfortably reclining in our sofas \u2013in our family living rooms, on the psychoanalist\u2019s divan and in our Victorian universities-, all of which as Michel Foucault pointed out four decades ago, generate profit. I propose to rethink aspects of the university, with a focus on the humanities, the vast field where art is considered to reside in the university curriculum, particularly where research is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Derrida suggested that the humanities should have to deconstruct their own concepts for a\u00a0<em>University without condition<\/em>. We\u2019ll begin with interiority, the model of \u2018contemplation\u2019 as individual access to knowledge, bound to reflection and solitary study, going on from there to the self-reflexiveness of exemplary figures of modernity: Heidegger\u2019s hut and Virginia Woolf\u2019s room of one\u2019s own; also a model based on acts of verification, on a \u2018store of knowledge\u2019 which lay the ground for a \u2018scientific\u2019 model of the humanities that we will contrast with other, more dialogical and connective models.<\/p>\n<p>We will then look at writing itself. The AHRC [Arts and Humanities Research Council] prefers the term\u00a0<em>practice-led research\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>practice-based research<\/em>. The former reflects the need for practice to be accompanied by \u201csome form of documentation of the research process, as well as some form of textual analysis or explanation to support its position and to demonstrate critical reflection\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, Roland Barthes was already advising young investigators to inscribe their research within desire; that is, to put their themes into writing, not in order to express them but to cause a dispersal, a spillage, in the discourse of investigation. Could we then, in a parody of the postmedia condition, speak of a post-textual condition where essay writing could embody and displace (Derrida) the traditional \u201cblack on white\u201d as the sole \u201cstore of critical thinking\u201d, so that the space of writing and the practices involved in artistic investigation could be reconsidered?<\/p>\n<p>We could (and should) broaden the concept of writing, and move from work (oeuvre) to text, and from text to a dispositive made up of a complex, as yet undefined network of signs that generate meaning. This would be a way to escape from the traditional modern dichotomy between theory and practice, and to imagine a new topology in which writing would give way to different modes of articulating research. Moving through the\u00a0<em>campus<\/em>\u00a0in such a new topology of the humanities would mean following a series of lines that link up \u201cpartial statements\u201d, lesser, situated, and \u201cformless\u201d forms of knowledge, with a material writing able to make its mark in the global economies of the signs we use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To take part in the activity, which will run from 11.00 to 14.00, and be sent the selected bibliography, contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bulegoa@bulegoa.org\">bulegoa@bulegoa.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aurora Fern\u00e1ndez Polanco<\/strong>\u00a0is a professor at the Department of Art Theory and History, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. She has worked on changes in perception in the appreciation of contemporary art, and on the reconsidering of problems in narrative by thinking through images in books, articles, talks and organising courses and seminars. Recent publications include: \u201cVoir Basilio Martin Patino avec Georges Didi-Huberman\u201d, T. Davila, P. Sauvanet (Eds.)<em>\u00a0Devant les images. Penser l\u2019art et l\u2019histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman<\/em>, Par\u00eds, Les presses du r\u00e9el, 2011; \u201cMnemosyne versus Clio: la Historia desde el Arte\u201d,\u00a0<em>Espacio, tiempo y forma<\/em>, UNED, Madrid, 2012; \u201cVer a distancia\u201d,\u00a0<em>Lecturas para un espectador inquieto\u00a0<\/em>(Ed. Yayo Aznar, Pablo Mart\u00ednez, Madrid, CA2M, 2012; \u201cMn\u00e9mosyne \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque de la digitalisation globale (Tavola des chocs modernes)\u201d,\u00a0<em>Images Re-vues<\/em>, 2013. Exhibitions curated include\u00a0<em>Image(s), mon amour<\/em>. Rabih Mrou\u00e9, CA2M, M\u00f3stoles, 2013. She also edits the magazine\u00a0<em>Re-visiones<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/re-visiones.imaginarrar.net\/\">http:\/\/re-visiones.imaginarrar.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our era of academic capitalism we are still comfortably reclining in our sofas \u2013in our family living rooms, on the psychoanalist\u2019s divan and in our Victorian universities-, all of which as Michel Foucault pointed out four decades ago, generate profit. I propose to rethink aspects of the university, with a focus on the humanities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FROM A \u201cUNIVERSITY WITHOUT CONDITION\u201d: WRITING DEFERRED AND LESSER KNOWLEDGE. 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