<editorial board> first issue

[ranabir at mcrg.ac.in]

Dear Gerald,
Thanks. Your letter makes sense.
Ranabir

Original Message:
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From: gerald raunig raunig at eipcp.net
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:51:28 +0200
To: agu at listcultures.org
Subject: Re: <editorial board> first issue


thanks a lot for moving on. here's a short response to the collective's
proposal and geert's reply: 
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. 
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 - as for division of the hard work, i am
sorry, my english is too poor to get involved in the real editorial process.
saluti,
g.
 


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Dear all,

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.

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.

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.

All the best,

edu-factory collective




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