Architectures of Education - Ramon Amaro - Threshold Value

Threshold Value

Ramon Amaro

Arc_AOE_RA_1

Occupation of Deptford Town Hall by Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action, 2019. Photo: Angela Christofilou.

Architectures of Education
March 2020










Notes
1

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2008), 226–227.

2

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), 425.

3

Sofia Akel, “Insider-Outside: The Role of Race in Shaping the Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Students,” Goldsmiths, October 2019, .

4

“Black academic staff face double whammy in promotion and pay stakes,” University and College Union, October 14, 2019, .

5

“A public statement from Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action on the end of the occupation,” Goldsmiths Students’ Union, July 29, 2019, .

6

Han Jiawei and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000).

7

“How you can support the NSS Boycott,” Goldsmiths Students’ Union, .

8

“Why take the survey,” National Student Survey, .

9

Judy Friedberg, “University Guide 2020: How to use the Guardian University Guide 2020,” The Guardian, June 7, 2019, .

10

UK Prevent is a state-run security strategy that seeks to identify “radical” individuals by engages with practices that are enacted in the name of managing risk and uncertainty. See: Charlotte Heath-Kelly, “Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual: Producing the ‘Radicalisation’ Discourse and the UK PREVENT Strategy,” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15, no. 3 (August 2013): 394–415.

11

Jiawei and Kamber, Data Mining.

12

David Mumford and Agnès Desolneux, Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals (Natick, MA: A K Peters, 2010).

13

Richard S. Sutton, “Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences,” Machine Learning 3, no. 1 (August 1, 1988): 9–44.

14

Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood, “Abstract Urbanism.” In How To Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software, ed. Matthew Fuller (Hoboken: Wiley, 2017), 39.

15

Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures (New York: New York University Press, 2019), ix.

16

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 84; Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019), 31.

17

Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures, ix.

18

Ibid.

This contribution derives from a presentation given by Ramon Amaro at Nottingham Contemporary on November 8, 2019. A video recording of the presentation is available here.

Architectures of Education is a collaboration between Nottingham Contemporary, Kingston University, and e-flux Architecture, and a cross-publication with The Contemporary Journal.