No6

ICT has got many advantages - that's a cliche. To say that the University is a union of people is also a cliche. The question is what is the relation between those two statements?

In the XXI Century we will, like it or not, rely more and more on technology. We will e-learn, e-work, e-meet, e-love, e-desire, e-fuck (e-provoke).

Let's get back in time to the year 1968 for a sec - Imagine the crowd of students demonstrating on the streets of Paris. Listen to what they shout, see the way they hug, hold their hands, sing, walk, fight the police. Revolution.

Now imagine them in the year 2010 - joining a protest group on facebook. Period.

You may say that they can meet in the real world. You may say that they may influence the authorities by signing an e-petition. But does it have the same meaning?

For me the Univeristy is not only a virtual union of people but also the place, the space of the buildings and parks around the university grounds that allows them to unite. The university is the place where I can listen to the students talks when I pass them by, a place where we meet in front of the coffe machine and a place where we (how ancient of me) ask each other to barrow a lighter in the smoking area.


Can one expect a revolution that can be 'shut down' from our eyes with few clicks to be more than superficial? It's way harder to turn your eyes away from the bricks. Still.


Not to be to bombastic let me finish with an example (not from the University but from the High School).

Being rebelious, resistant, nonnormative is essential for me in case of making the world a nicer place to live in.
Can you imagine this scene to happen online? It's the last episode of 1st season of the tv-series Popular. The story is that the teacher sends photos of one of the classes to all the places that they could go to during the "skip day" (last day of school) and informs the police of their planns. So as the only group they have to stay at school. Why they start to sing is yet another story...

No5

I'm one of the people who hated lectures. Listening to a person talking for 90 minutes, usually with no visual aids and poor charisma, made me think about everything except the topic presented.

However, I was lucky enough to come across some academic teachers who durning those 90 minutes were able to make me think in a way that would seem impossible before.

One of those teachers had a course in Amercian Literature and Movies. The way she opened minds is still (and for a long time will be) an ultimate goal in my work with students.

Getting rid of prejudice, stereotypes and intelectual laziness (comfort?) if happened in my case, happened mostly thanks to her.


So, if you want to, forget all the bad things you think about popular culture, non-normative behaviour, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or whatever and simply enjoy one of the most beautiful love songs (in my opinion):


Buffy - Tara/Willow - Under your spell - MyVideo

No4

OK, so this is a clip from one of my favourite TV-shows... Funny thing is that now I find it even more amusing (real?)

No3

For the majority of the students from my science club, today is the last exam in the winter semester. Lame as it may sound, I hope that they will pass the Philosophy Course... (Curse?). Would be a shame for them to drop out. Especially (Mainly?) that I need them for some future projects :)

No2

OK, so it's not about not having anything to write about, it's simply the difficulty in selecting the decent and suitable topics...

Ain't that right?

No1

Got no clue what I am supposed to post here right now.

Anyhow, enjoy whatever you shall find here;)

I hope...