I am all for the use of fiction as an inspiration to action, tony.
Swam in a bunch of the quarries there myself and broke away in a big
way from what my grad advisors
suggested I do.... told I was throwing my life away.
Still, many hear struggle with their roles as educators. In their
everyday lives, partly
imagined to be sure.
So, without taking an ounce away from imaginative art, what new forms
of education does a breaking away perspective point us toward?
No better test for a theory than its applicability to practice i
head,... hard to remember where.
mike
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:12:44 -0500, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cole [mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com]
> Still in the realm of fiction, Don. Hoosier style?
> mike -----------
> -----------------
>
> maybe, Mike, but there can be much truth in fiction.
>
> Breaking Away is a great movie -- won Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
> It also contains the most succinct presentation I know of Marx's theory of
> alienation: ("Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by
> sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."
> Capital Vol. I Chapter Ten )
>
> In other words, the material conditions that limit the freedom of living
> workers are imposed by the appropriation past ("dead") labor, which, in the
> form of capital, dictates the conditions of employment for current
> ("living") labor.
>
> The scene takes place outside the IU's (limestone) library building.
> A PDF file slideshow of the scene can be downloaded from
> www.udel.edu/educ/whitson/files/BA2library.pdf
>
> Because of the file size [1.5 Meg] I will keep the file there only for the
> next two weeks.
>
> Bonus question for Don Cunningham (or anybody else who's seen this movie
> more than once):
>
> What did the father stop himself from telling the son (which would have
> completed the sentence that begins "Well, your mom ...") ?
>
> I never made this connection before, but it reminds me of
> Sennett's "Hidden Injuries of Class."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cunningham, Donald J. [mailto:cunningh@indiana.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:23 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Breaking away?
>
> http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800041061&cf=info&intl=us
>
> Don Cunningham
> Indiana University
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:22:51 -0500, Cunningham, Donald J.
> <cunningh@indiana.edu> wrote:
> > http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800041061&cf=info&intl=us
> >
> > Don Cunningham
> > Indiana University
> >
> >
>
>
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