The Workers and Punks’ University

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Delavsko punkerska univerza (DPU)
Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 234 7731





The Workers' Punk University - Delavsko-punkerska univerza (DPU) - is an educational project run by Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies that provides opportunities for active education (lectures, discussion groups, reading seminars) on contemporary political topics tacitly ignored by most of the established academia. Since its establishment in 1998, the University's running slogan is Nasvidenje v naslednji revoluciji! ('See you in the next revolution!').


DPU as an alternative university

In its socially-reproductive function the established university is closely related with the existing social hierarchy: the university favours a typifying and utilitarian knowledge and grooms the future work force by virtue of its examination regimes. Thursdays' lectures – about 20 per year - are held in Klub Gromka at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone. As the 'invisible college' the Workers' Punk University seeks to provide an alternative to the established university, not merely on the level of content but also in terms of its organisational structure, consequently it is organised and led by the students themselves. In the season 2007/2008 the DPU has launched a film seminar called Filmski krožek (themes: film comedy, the new Hollywood, the American 'black' film, Partisan film) has been launched in collaboration with Retrovizor.


Previous lectures

For some time now the self-contained knowledge of the established university has failed to address issues in the fields of punk, labour and other marginalised groups, i.e. the watershed social and political reality of today. In the past years DPU has addressed these gaps with lecture-cycles such as 'Revolution', 'Neo-Conservativism', 'The New Right', 'The Left', 'Utopistics', 'May '68: reVISION' and 'Love and Politics', 'Post-Fordism', (drawing on the most diverse sources, including Gandhi, Freud, Arendt, Marx, Rousseau, St Augustine, St Paul, Adorno, Foucault, de Sade, Lacan, Negri and Virno), 'Political Ecology', ' On Sin', 'Totalitarism', 'Stupidity', 'School as Ideological Economy Apparatus ' in the 2009/10 season.

Reading seminars

The Reading Seminars organised by DPU - some six per year - included insight into 'Psychoanalysis', 'Theory of Art', 'Hegel and Philosophy', 'Asian Production Mode', and 'Transformations in Art', which togehter with the Museum of Modern Art co-organised six lectures on the function of Art in Society. For the second time DPU also organised Prvomajska šola ('DPU 1st May School') on Marxism and on the Critic of Apolitical Economy with lectures and guests from Slovenia and the region.



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