Comments on: Tohu Bohu http://arlenegoldbard.com/2007/06/03/tohu-bohu/ Purpose & pleasure. Aligned. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:23:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bohdan Bochan http://arlenegoldbard.com/2007/06/03/tohu-bohu/#comment-391 Bohdan Bochan Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:45:36 +0000 http://arlenegoldbard.com/2007/06/03/tohu-bohu/#comment-391 I liked the article, especially its reference to 'tohu bohu.' I think the author voices ideas that have been quite well described by de Certeau, Serres and Heidegger....the problem that we will be facing is rather than social, an epistemological one...the shape of the mind produced by our institutions of higher learning. " No child left behind..." reflects the matrix of the mind in our century: it no longer produces out of indeterminate sources its knowledge, but rather insues from repetition, in other words, from numbers. In Nieztsche's times you could teach a course on 'presocratics' with three students, in other words, in front of empty seats, in front of empty multiplicity; today the course would be cancelled because it does not fulfill the 'quota.' ...the concept of multiplicity is frozen into a required concept of totality: "No" child left behind.......................... I liked the article, especially its reference to ‘tohu bohu.’ I think the author voices ideas that have been quite well described by de Certeau, Serres and Heidegger….the problem that we will be facing is rather than social, an epistemological one…the shape of the mind produced by our institutions of higher learning.
” No child left behind…” reflects the matrix of the mind in our century: it no longer produces out of indeterminate sources its knowledge, but rather insues from repetition, in other words, from numbers. In Nieztsche’s times you could teach a course on ‘presocratics’ with three students, in other words, in front of empty seats, in front of empty multiplicity; today the course would be cancelled because it does not fulfill the ‘quota.’ …the concept of multiplicity is frozen into a required concept of totality: “No” child left behind……………………..

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