It's funny you mention all this stuff about the "between." In my education
here, the issue always comes up about what happens in the "inbetween" spaces,
otherwise known as the interstitial space. Your right in saying that all
space is the mediator of interaction. Different spaces are going to produce
different intneractions but also regulate those interactions. So you see a
key element to the spatial considerations to be the inbetween space? This is
good. Well, what about those spaces outside of those inbetween, "discursive"
spaces? What happens or should happen to them? Does the teacher or would the
teacher still keep to themselves and their students or really engage
themselves outside of their little box? I f you already explained it once, I
apologize. I just want to make sure and maybe I'll get something else going
in this discussion.
"ah-yup. It's built into the system, a reproducing mechanism - we
learn it in school as children, grow up, go to teacher's college,
and have it all reinforced. It's built into the practice. Interpellated into
the profession. Not impossible to change - never impossible - but"
It is ashame that it is all just a redundant production system, where we all
just learn the same thing as those before us did and then we carry it on in
the same way to the younger generations. Eugene's right when he talks about
how in today's education we are all just being prepared for a job or the real
world, rather than becoming excited about the world. So, we become
"dis-abled", and very few of us actually get to be creative and be in the
"creative field." But, again, it is that politics thing, telling us what to
do and what we should be doing, not to mention the economic influence on it
all.
By the way, I really enjoy your little philosophical forays.
-- Stephen Van Hoose 5th Year B.A. Architecture Student Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture Troy, NY mail: vanhos who-is-at rpi.edu web address: http://www.rpi.edu/~vanhos