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Student as Producer: Higher education and something more

There will be an event to officially launch Student as Producer at the University of Lincoln on the 8th of November, at 5pm in room 1019 in the MAB.

All academic staff and students and colleagues from support and professional services are invited to attend. Friends, colleagues and students from outside the university are very welcome.

There will be some short speeches, and the chance to meet and listen to students who have stretched the possibilities of higher education.

There will be a very nice big cake to eat, and drinks to wash it down. The event will be over by 6pm.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus

A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth hangs open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage hurling it before his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

— Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” in Illuminations (1940).

Student as Producer is based on a number of intellectual projects, including critical social theory. Walter Benjamin (1892 -1940) was a central figure among a group of critical social theorists writing in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. His article, Author as Producer (1934), is a key text for the development of Student as Producer

Big Cake Big Launch

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