{"id":2830,"date":"2023-09-07T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptford.tv\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:59:15","slug":"issa-the-inaugural-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"ISSA: The Inaugural Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Will We Live? \u2013 Franco &quot;Bifo&quot; Berardi\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/877638952?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How will we live?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Article that mentions <a href=\"https:\/\/issa-school.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISSA<\/a> by Brian Sholis, writer and editor based in Toronto, published in the Frontier Magazine under the title <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.frontier.is\/p\/way-out-thereand-everywhere\">\u201cWay Out There \u2013 and Everywhere\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9205-1-2048x1536-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2831\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m always&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.are.na\/brian-sholis\/the-pursuit-of-knowledge-under-difficulties\">seeking examples of self-organized and non-accredited educational initiatives<\/a>. Two recent initiatives have caught my eye, both independently and for how their core ideas simultaneously align and diverge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend, on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vis_(island)\">Vis<\/a>, a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, Italian philosopher&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franco_Berardi\">Franco Berardi<\/a>&nbsp;helped inaugurate the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issa-school.org\/\">Island School of Social Autonomy<\/a>&nbsp;with a lecture titled \u201cHow Will We Live?\u201d I\u2019ve been following along as the school\u2019s co-founders painstakingly renovate an old stone house in the hills above Komi\u017ea and reading with interest as they publish essays that cite many of the culture and education critics I most admire. I\u2019m also intrigued because its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issa-school.org\/#cofounders\">list of cofounders<\/a>&nbsp;includes not only philosophers, theorists, artists, and poets, but also actor-activists like Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal and Pamela Anderson. That kind of support\u2014both in visibility and funding\u2014can give experiments like this one the momentum it needs to stay afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The founders make the distinction between education and learning, noting, correctly, that learning mostly happens outside the formal institutions we have for education\u2014and that the kinds of things taught in school may not serve us well for an \u201cage of extinction.\u201d So the ISSA should be \u201ca place that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issa-school.org\/reflections\/why-starting-a-school\/\">imagines, experiments with, and cultivates forms of knowledge production and sharing<\/a>&nbsp;that go beyond traditional notions of education and its purpose.\u201d Its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issa-school.org\/principles-of-the-school\/\">principles<\/a>&nbsp;include \u201cno curriculum,\u201d \u201cno quantification,\u201d \u201cplay,\u201d \u201chospitality,\u201d and, \u201cPomalo!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Vis, that last term, they suggest, \u201cis both a greeting meaning \u2018take it slow\u2019 and an island philosophy of how things can get properly done or how to react in utter crisis.\u201d They\u2019ve chosen to locate the project on the island in part for that attitude, how it refuses the orthodoxy \u201ctime is money,\u201d and for the island\u2019s antifascist and other histories. \u201cSimilar to ISSA itself, the island of Vis embodies an essential dialectic relationship between autonomy and dependency, nature and society, local and global. For ISSA, it is not an either-or situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what about that goal, social autonomy? \u201cWe perceive social autonomy as the ability of individuals to function as cooperative group members, engaging in communal self-governance while being aware of the interconnectedness and interdependence of communities within broader networks (or archipelagoes) of human and non-human life-organization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISSA&nbsp;(..)&nbsp;is a model of rigor and camaraderie, a beacon shining from the (quite literal) hills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article that mentions ISSA by Brian Sholis, writer and editor based in Toronto, published in the Frontier Magazine under the title \u201cWay Out There \u2013 and Everywhere\u201d I\u2019m always&nbsp;seeking examples of self-organized and non-accredited educational initiatives. Two recent initiatives have caught my eye, both independently and for how their core ideas simultaneously align and diverge.&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/?p=2830\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISSA: The Inaugural Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}