Saturday, October 20, 2007

Hazy Knowledge and Potential Seeds

It is crucial to investigate the development of “specialized languages,” particularly within academic institutions, and explore the ways in which these “specialized languages,” vocabularies, or terminologies serve to cordon off experience and create “exclusive” zones or zones of exclusion. Aside from the fascinating linguistic debate, we should try to understand what role the intellectual can have today in engaging a discourse that is both outspoken and comprehensible and how this debate is framed in the Academy. Crucial is also to examine the relationship between the imposition of technocratic/corporative languages, specialized vocabularies, and the loss of identity, particularly through imposed boundaries that level out intellectual differences in representative forms of expression... boundaries that are almost impalpable (a deep and extensive analysis of the nature of these boundaries is also a pivotal point).

Moreover within this context: which is the role of “the unperceived”? The idea of the unknown that sparks “mythical” experience, that intersects with and transforms the pragmatic space of a tangible experience, moving beyond the idea of a common ground of shared rules and specialized languages towards a dynamic in which the particular and the subjective are at the center and where this hazy knowledge becomes a crucial seed for further imagining that may eventually lead to open up cracks in the new (functional) intelligibility of the Academia.

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