BusilessStudies
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[edit] Faculty of Busiless Studies
busiless (n. any activity without finality which extends horizontally. trans from Spanish; "Sinocio", meaning �without leisure�, as opposed to; ocio, leisure and ; negocio, business)
This course, organised initially by the Superficialist International, will blatantly and obviously attempt to politicise the kind of over-active dis-contents who may be pursuing art activities or other busilesses.
The initial reading list will include those texts being researched by the Superficialist Internacional, concentrating on anti-work practise and theory. Initially the proposal is to look at the current debate within the anti global movements of the issues arising within the autonomous movement in �70s Italy, including the concepts of Multitude and Exodus. In order to understand the class nature of these concepts and the refusal to work generally we propose to follow the research through the texts of the leading Autonomists, and their critics and enthusiasts, using them as a lens through which to view the relevance or otherwise of Marxist thought in our own attempts to control and reproduce our existence in ways that we find useful and interesting.
As to practical considerations, a reading group and self-tutorial (weekly? fortnightly?momentarily) which will define the scope and content of further reading, it would be to our advantage that various sub-groupings form within the initial impetus to pursue related topics such as Feminism and work refusal, History of the multitude as labour history (and liberal lie). Theories of Value etc. These topics could be informed and debated across the emerging disciplinary boundaries, though this will be decided by the reading group as a whole.
The Superficialist International feel that the content of this course will inform the form in which we choose to study and of how free university phenomenon can be developed into a pointless and valuable busiless .
All students will automatically receive a Failure to Pursue Quantifiable Labour Certificate. Whether they have understood anything or not.
- r contact; The Superficialist International (dogmafinal@hotmail.com)
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