2013-14

The HEAT reading group was formed in 2013, details of the texts we read in our inaugural year can be found by following the links:

Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979, trans. 1984)

• meeting introduced by Steven Cranfield

• Re-Reading “The Postmodern Condition”: Backwards into the problematic (Allan)
• Lyotard’s ‘mercantilisation’ of knowledge’ (Steven)
• Performance and Production; Command and Control (Allan)
  • Response, Part 1: Performatives to Performativity: What Kind of Move? (Matt)
  • Response, Part 2: The Alienation of the Intelligentsia (Matt)
• Performance, Performative and Performativity in Higher Education. From Lyotard towards Arendt (Allan)

Hannah Arendt, ‘The Crisis in Education’, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (1954, pub. 2006)

• meeting introduced by Michele Ledda

• Education and Oligarchy (Allan)
• Education without Cultivation? (Matt)

Basil Bernstein, ‘Social class and pedagogic practice’, The Structuring of pedagogic discourse. Vol. IV: Class, Codes and Control (1987, pub. 2003)

• meeting introduced by Allan Parsons

• Bernstein dispatched (Allan)