[ecrea] CFP: A Guidebook to the Unbounded University: Cartographies of Knowledge Production in Struggle

> From the Counter Cartographies Collective...
>(www.countercartographies.org)
>
>Call for contributions:  A Guidebook to the Unbounded University:
>Cartographies of Knowledge Production in Struggle
>
>The university has exploded like a meteorite into a thousand
>fragmentary spaces of knowledge, affect, production and struggle.
>Classroom seminars and campus buildings bleed onto adjacent urban
>fabrics as the city and campus merge. University research leaps up
>from the laboratory and re-articulates with and alters production
>networks, military and police contracts and new pharmaceuticals.
>Autonomous knowledges and movements spring up within and against the
>university.
>
>Corporate offices are side by side with academic and administration
>offices, and university inhabitants enraged by the crisis seek to
>occupy everything. In the midst of these transformations, the
>university is becoming a primary node of broader social shifts, such
>as the knowledge economy and its reconfigurations of everyday spaces,
>increasing precarity of labor, global migration and border-policing,
>new technology and communication-forms, and a broader
>interconnectivity of social movements. Perhaps the University has
>ceased to be a mode of education and has become a mode of organizing
>society...
>
>Rising through the cracks, beneath the ruins of the ivory tower,
>unfurl the green shoots of an emergent social form, the rhizomatic
>university. Old and new forms of knowledge production and
>exploitation, multiple forms of enclosure and re-invention of the
>commons,  possibilities of alternative politics, the erasure of
>borders of what is and where is not the university, the queering of
>identities such as student, staff, faculty, migrant, non-student,
>and, and and and...
>
>We propose a guidebook from below to a place which is of our own
>imaginings. Through this book we will dream together, share demands
>and cautions, escape routes and itineraries and help to call the
>rhizomatic university into being.
>
>Contributions could be descriptive and prescriptive, analyzing
>transformations in the university today as well as the struggles both
>within and against the university and outside and beyond it. We
>encourage short' to medium length writing and as many graphics as
>possible. Submissions should play with all aspects of the guidebook
>format and could include:
>
>Maps
>Specific histories or timelines of movements, universities, social
>centers or theoretical schools
>Real and imagined itineraries through spaces of knowledge production
>"Instructions to the visitor" - advice, cautions, survival
>strategies, DIY how-tos for making it in the university today
>Photos or drawings of specific sites, along with short descriptions
>"How it works" -- theoretical understandings and analyses of the
>university (up to 5000 words)
>"Useful phrases" and glossary terms
>Flora and fauna
>Comics
>Nightlife and entertainment
>Facts and figures
>Please submit a brief description, abstract, sketch or diagram of
>your planned contribution via email to (countercartographies /at/ gmail.com)
>by June 5, 2010. We will make review decisions or suggestions on a
>rolling basis. Feel free to contact us with questions or
>comments.hies of Knowledge Production in Struggle
>

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