http://www.culture.si/en/Workers%27_Punk_University
The Workers' Punk University (Delavsko-punkerska
univerza (DPU)) is an educational project run by the Peace
Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studiesthat
provides opportunities for active education (lectures, discussion groups,
reading seminars) on pertinent political topics tacitly ignored by most of the
established academia. Since its establishment in 1998, its running slogan has
been Nasvidenje v naslednji revoluciji! ("See you in the next
revolution!").
DPU as an alternative university
In its socially-reproductive function the university is
closely related with the existing social hierarchy; the university favours
typifying and utilitarian knowledge and grooms the future work force by virtue
of its examination regimes. Thursdays' public lectures – about 20 per year –
are held at Klub Gromka in Metelkova mesto Autonomous
Cultural Zone. As an "invisible college", this university seeks
to provide an alternative to the established production of knowledge, not
merely on the level of content but also in terms of its organisational
structure. Consequently, the students themselves organise and lead it.
In collaboration with Retrovizor, DPU
launched a film seminar called Filmski krožek in the season 2007/2008; its
themes encompass film comedy, the new Hollywood, the American "black"
film, Partisan film, etc.
Some of the previous lecture-cycles include topics such as
Revolution, Neo-Conservativism, The New Right, The Left, Utopistics, May '68:
reVISION, Post-Fordism, Totalitarism, Stupidity, School as Economy's
Ideological Apparatus, and The Class Struggle after the Class Struggle.
Reading seminars
The reading seminars organised by DPU – some six per year –
afford insights into topics such as Psychoanalysis, Theory of Art, Hegel and
Philosophy, Asian Production Mode, and Transformations in Art. Together with
the Museum of Modern Art DPU organised six
lectures on the function of art in society. Twice to date DPU has also
organised Prvomajska šola ("DPU 1 May School") on Marxism
and the critique of apolitical economy with lectures and guests from Slovenia.
See also
External links
DPU website (in
Slovenian)
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