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color=#0000ff size=2>thanks a lot for moving on. here's a
short response to the collective's proposal and geert's
reply: </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>as i understood the - excellent - abstract on
"how to start a university", its content is not so much focussing
on the problem of peer review. still, there could and should be a part
of the "first issue" devoted to the more general question of a
critique of the "system of measure" with the peer review system just as one
effect or function of this system. from my perspective the issue should
take into account the terrifying combination of modularizing (as measuring,
striating, standardizing, counting, rigidly forming the singularities
involved in the educational field) AND modulating (as eternal "transition",
constant and infinite necessity to vary, change, and adapt) in the emerging
corporate universities. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>on the level of anomalies and alternatives: ranabir's
suggestion of a collective reading (which of course might get complicated in a
translocal situation) could be a starting point, not only as practice
of the edu-factory-journal itself, but also on the level of reflecting
on methodologies of collective exchange and discussion of text production. and
hopefully there is also a multitude of other practices that thwart the
above mentioned twofold pressure of modulation and start different
kinds of universities. i would be willing to collaborate in the search for
these, also beyond the call for papers - </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=765591023-29042010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>as for division
of the hard work, i am sorry, my english is too poor to get involved in the
real editorial process.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>saluti,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=765591023-29042010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>g.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Von:</B> agu-bounces@listcultures.org
[mailto:agu-bounces@listcultures.org] <B>Im Auftrag von
</B>info@edu-factory.org<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Donnerstag, 29. April 2010
16:18<BR><B>An:</B> agu@listcultures.org<BR><B>Betreff:</B> <editorial
board> first issue<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P>Dear all,</P>
<P>As you know, the zero issue of the edu-factory journal was published online
at the beginning of March. We think it's an important achievement: thanks to
all the editorial board for the debate and the collaboration in this project.
We would now like to discuss the launch of the journal in a collective
way.</P>
<P>Besides letting people know about the zero issue, we need to discuss the
first issue of the journal. We have written a proposal, you will find it
attached. Of course this is only an idea and we would like to discuss it with
all the editorial board in order to make a common decision and work together
on it. If there are other topics that someone would like to propose, or more
ideas and suggestions about this proposal, please feel free to contribute to
the discussion.</P>
<P>Also, we would like to make a couple of methodological proposals. The first
is to have specific editors for each of the two journal sections (Occupations
and Anomalies). This would facilitate a division of labor within the editorial
board which would greatly assist those member of the collective who have been
carrying the weight on this project. The second proposal concerns the complex
question of the peer review. We briefly discussed this at the beginning of
this editorial board list. We want to build a critique of the peer review
process and the system of measure, auditing and ranking of which it is an
integral part. This means approaching the peer review system as a political
battlefield. As an alternative to peer review, Ranabir Samaddar suggested we
could practice a collective reading of the articles for the first issue. Maybe
Ranabir could explain the idea more in depth.</P>
<P>All the best,</P>
<P>edu-factory collective<BR></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>