Song Delays, or the A B C of Pedagogy

Abstract

In the face of capitalist responses to environmental and economic crisis, in which the notion of “property” is often expanded or intensified – whether as territorial enclosure, forced extraction and privatization of natural resources, or the privatization of collective knowledge production in the university – notions of withdrawal and autonomous escape from the destructive machine of capitalism take on a variety of forms. This work is designed to visualize the ways in which spontaneous collective actions and reconfigured notions of “property” can take root in a notion of “life” itself: e.g. promoting of the potentiality of land without the spectre of monetization; free knowledge production or Lok Vidya (people's knowledge) that exceeds the territorial enclosure of the private university; reclamation of the right to be and to speak through encirclement; and the collective performance of street actions and protest.

Key Words:

• Hunger Strike
• Property
• Territory
• Post-Capitalist Life
• Lok Vidya
• Collective Pedagogy
• Commons