Delavsko punkerska univerza (DPU)
Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 234 7731
Rok Kogej, Co-ordinator
The Workers and Punks’ University
From Culture.si
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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.
Previous lecture-cycles
In the past years DPU has addressed topics such as "Revolution", "Neo-Conservativism", "The New Right", "The Left", "Utopistics", "May '68: reVISION", "Love and Politics", "Post-Fordism", (drawing on 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 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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The Workers' Punk University (Delavsko-pun … The Workers' Punk University (Delavsko-punkerska univerza (DPU)) is an educational project run by the Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies that provides opportunities for active education (lectures, discussion groups, reading seminars) on pertinent political topics tacitly ignored by most of the established academia.nored by most of the established academia. +
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