One of the few truly interesting blogs I’ve found on eduspaces.net is that of camille.pb, possibly because it’s not about education. Camille is dedicated to researching the art of programming and information processing in the artistic field, as well as the study of network work. The vast majority of eduspaces members are directly engaged in promoting the virtues of Web 2.0, Education 2.0, e-learning, and, in general, everything 2.0 in such an uncritical way that it never ceases to amaze me. As an example, take a look at the slideshow/paseo-por-los-mundos-de-yuppy 2.0 that David Delgado presents in his blog about Enterprise 2.0; to drive the point home, don’t miss David’s final comment. We have said more than once that there is currently a significant gap between social needs and the methodologies and content of the education system, and, more surprisingly, between this same system and the training needs of the infocapitalist production system. However, embracing Web 2.0 in such a carefree and cheerful way, excluding any reflection on the inequalities and exclusions that the same system produces, is a long way off. Moreover, no one in eduspaces seems to be concerned with even thinking about whether these technologies might have a “dark side,” something that Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick reflect on in this text published in Mute Magazine and that reached us via YP.
All this came about because we have found an interesting text by Jannis Kallinikos and José-Carlos Mariátegui in Camille.pb’s eduspace that reflects on the increase in information, mainly due to digitization processes. Kallinikos and Mariátegui say: Information and the artifacts and technologies through which it is produced penetrate deeper and deeper into the fabric of everyday life. […] often imperceptibly, a large number of daily tasks redefine the meaning of practices and ways of doing things and introduce new habits and activities. . We can easily see the relationship of this passage with what was mentioned above. You can read the full text in English here and in French here.
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