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+====We begin our discussion with Franz Kafka's "A Report for an Academy". Red Peter, an ape who obtained human capacity, gives a report to an academy of scientists in 1917: ==== |
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+Franz Kafka, 1917. "A Report an Academy" translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, Schocken Books Inc. http://www.kafka.org/index.php?aid=161 |
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+I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I |
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+, honored Members of the Academy, I have only made a report. |
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+====Universities are defined by prestige and elitism, ordering themselves according to arbitrary rankings, grandiose self-perception, and the market economy. "A Report to an Academy" highlights this alienating bureaucracy, which has intimately tied education to the production of exclusionary cultural norms. Red Peter's transition from savage to academic is a form of cultural death, predicated on a relentless drive for false progress that equates materialist exchange to cultural meaning. This spectacle of technological expertise is imposed upon society by Academia which has become a defining structure of modernity, while masking any critique as "uncultured" and "unaware of tradition".==== |
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+Jerry **Zaslove,** 20**12** |
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+Zaslove is a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University and is a Ph.D. in Comparative European Literature. "A Report to an Academy: Some Untimely Meditations Out of Season" English Studies in Canada, Vol 38, No 1, pg 34-37 |
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+Subsequent to writing the story, Kafka composed a letter to Red Peter on behalf |
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+of the apes to reveal the spectacle through the art of cynicism.10 |
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+====Therefore, I affirm parrhesia as a resistance of the limiting of constitutionally protected free speech in public colleges and universities. ==== |
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+====Structures of domination are predicated on dynamic systems of power which are produced by societal normativity. Subversion is therefore founded not in purely philosophical or political critique, but instead in the practice of producing bodily ethics and actionable methods of liberation. Parrhesia, in contrast to modes of engagement predicated on hierarchical dynamics such as the teacher who espouses tradition, forefronts the singularity of an open, internal, and personal speech. This enables a joyfully cynical questioning from a non-dominant perspective that speaks truth regardless of the powers that be. ==== |
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+Laurence **McFalls and** Mariella **Pandolfi,** 20**15** |
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+McFalls is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal. Pandolfi is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal. "'Parrhesia': the radical destruction of impunity", https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/laurence-mcfalls-mariella-pandolfi/E28098parrhesiaE28099-radical-destruction-of-impunity. |
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+At the beginning of his final lecture course, Le courage de la vérité, |
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+in Foucault's sense of a perpetual subversive practice in an art of living. |
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+====The role of the ballot is to vote for the best methodology of ascetic practice.==== |
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+====Ethical deliberation is founded in internal spirituality and self-affirmative vitalism. Practices of liberation begin with personal ascetic wills to mutate our anthropologically constitutive structures such as our rituals, praxis, and culture. Investigations of society must begin with developing an internal spiritual framework that propagates externally into transformational practices while deconstructing limiting ones. ==== |
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+Tyrus **Miller,** 20**14** |
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+Miller is a Professor, Vice Provost, and Dean of Graduate Studies at the |
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+lives of contemporary individuals with unpredictable flashes of spiritual emergency" (38). |
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+====Systems of power are tools that can either be used for good or manipulated for exploitation, as power is not absolute but rather fluid in its nature. Intellectuals have a particularly crucial role to play in terms of the restricting of criticism and history given their position within society. Acting alongside rather than evaluating transcendentally is crucial to critical praxis that can produce effective resistance. ==== |
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+Michel **Foucault and** Gilles **Deleuze,** 20**04** |
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+Foucault was a historian, Deleuze was a philosopher. They didn't really do much. "Desert Island and Other Texts: 1953-1974" (Desert Islands is a collection of unpublished interviews and texts by Deleuze, the collection was published in 2004, but the work within was written between 1953-1974) p206-209 |
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+Michel Foucault: A Maoist told me: "I can see why Sartre is |
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+them. A "theory" is the regional system of this struggle. |