Rogoff, Irit. 2010. FREE. e-flux journal(14), pp. 1-11. [Article]

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At some point last year I proposed within my institution, Goldsmiths, University of London, that we develop a free academy adjacent to our institution and call it “Goldsmiths Free.” The reactions to this proposal, when not amused smirks at the apparently adolescent nature of the proposal, were largely either puzzled—“What would we get out of it? Why would we want to do it?”—or horrified—“How would it finance itself?” No one asked what might be taught or discussed within it and how that might differ from the intellectual work that is done within our conventional fee-charging, degree-giving, research-driven institution. And that of course was the point, that it would be different, not just in terms of redefining the point of entry into the structure (free of fees and previous qualifications) or the modus operandi of the work (not degree-based, unexamined, not subject to the state’s mechanisms of monitoring and assessment), but also that the actual knowledge would be differently situated within it. And that is what I want to think about here, about the difference in the knowledge itself, its nature, its status, and its affect.

Item Type:	Article
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Research Office > REF2014 Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event March 2010 Published
Item ID:	4237
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2010 15:51
Last Modified:	27 Apr 2021 13:00
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/4237

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