>From: "E.M. Durflinger" <bc05319@binghamton.edu>
>Organization: Reunite Pangea Colaition
>To: "Alternative BUSI 411"<bc05319@binghamton.edu>
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 08:48:24 +0000
>Subject: (Fwd) Universities as a Space of Resistance (fwd)
>
>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:33:20 -0500 (EST)
>From: "J.C. Garcia Ellin" <bf20632@binghamton.edu>
>To: "Alternative BUSI 411 (TAZ)" <bc05319@binghamton.edu>
>Subject: Universities as a Space of Resistance (fwd)
>
>Hi Connor. I received this post and thought some people on the list might
>like to hear about it. Could you post it in the TAZ. Thank you.
>
>JC
>
>*****************STOP THE EXECUTION, FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL*****************
>********************VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE Y SOCIALISTA*******************
Right on!
>
>To All Recipients:
>
>A number of disturbing conservative trends and events have coalesced in
>the academic arena in campuses across the nation over the past few years:
>the eradication of affirmative action at UC, the erasure of diversity
>representation and diversity course requirements at SUNY Binghamton, the
>rush to privatize university systems in a number of states, the State's
>attempts to reduce large percentages of students loans, the failure of
>many disciplines to address the problem of the job market, the lack of
>student coalitions and activism on many campuses, the dismissal of what
>student-professor protests in the sixties accomplished, the pedagogical
>trend to teach radical ideas as commodifiable knowledge, and more.
>
>These issues need to be thematized at length--and now.
So far so good, even if a bit of the language is unnecessarily stilted.
>To this end, I'd
>like to invite concerned graduate students in all humanities disciplines
>to submit full-length articles to a new counter-disciplinary journal of
>philosophical, cultural, and literary resistance called _Crossings_.
Only concerned GRADUATE STUDENTS? Not even an UNDERgraduate student qualifies?
You may want Mumia Abu-Jamal to get out of jail, but he can't write for
your magazine unless some ruling-class university admits him as a Graduate
Student!
>_Crossings_, an international journal published twice a year, is edited
>and managed by an interdepartmental collective of graduate students at
>SUNY Binghamton and supported by an advisory panel of progressive faculty
>members.
Are there property qualifications for members of the advisory panel? {;->}
>We're still looking for a few more articles for our first issue, which
>focuses specifically on the topic of "Universities as a Space of
>Resistance." How can university communities influence sites of cultural
>production and the future of education in order to offer alternatives to
>apparatuses of the State and to the dominant culture's prohibitive modes
>of knowledge production: economic struggles, philosophical issues,
>political agendas, literary theories, etc? What is at stake in the move
>to privatize education? How might different disciplinary fields form
>communities with other disciplines: postcolonial studies with gender
>studies, neo-Marxists with Heideggerians, gay/lesbian/bisexual studies
>with rhetoric programs, medieval studies with twentieth-century studies?
>What would be the philosophical and historical character of these
>communities? Ultimately, upon what "ground" would a counter-disciplinary
>community of resistance be based and how would it differ from communities
>grounded in "identity politics"? And what would be the role of these
>communities as set against the background of contemporary economies of
>meaning and reality?
One of the things you're apparently resisting is the breakdown of the
separation between academic and working-class intellectuals.
>_Crossings_ invites submissions from both graduate students and
>professors.
Professors, too! That's white of you! But I don't think Mumia will qualify
that way, either!
>The deadline for our first issue is Dec. 20.
>
>All correspondence should be sent to the English Dept. at Binghamton
>University, Binghamton NY 13902-6000.
>
>Web Site: "http://english.adm.binghamton.edu/crossings/crossngs.htm"
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Robert P. Marzec, Editor Crossings
>English Department
>Binghamton University
><http://english.adm.binghamton.edu/crossings/crossngs.htm>
>crossrm@binghamton.edu
>
Maybe J.C. Garcia Ellin and Connor Durflinger, the forwarders of the above
letter, didn't read it carefully or give it much thought before sending it
out. If so, I sympathize with their present embarrassment.
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