Gravyland by Parks Stephen;

Author:Parks, Stephen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2021-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

Reform is less about assigning a variety of writing modes than about a particular vision of language, a particular enactment of language politics. The work of producing collaborative university/community publications in partnership with our surrounding neighbors, of socializing and expanding the aesthetic means of production, can thus ultimately become a key element in casting pedagogical and professional work outward to the culture as a whole. This work should become our common value.

Clearly, such an undertaking will take significant work and hard conversations. Yet if we want to ensure that the production of value within an academic program is not seen as simply the circulation of texts, but the creation of venues through which all participants begin to recognize and regard the ownership of such texts and the education of students as a communal responsibility, it is just this set of hard conversations that we must undertake. The story of Glassville, then, is not that our institute or department succeeded in permanently socializing the aesthetic means of production. Glassville did not lead to a moment of epiphany, but to a contentious and difficult process. As I once heard a university president state, “One of the great contributions of higher education is to show people how to deliberate over contentious issues together.” By taking on use-value as a guiding principle of our work, I believe we can contribute to that great tradition.

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