Grading can be considered as a knowledge-power technology within a lineage of accountancy, human... more Grading can be considered as a knowledge-power technology within a lineage of accountancy, human management, and disciplinarity. This essay explores how I situate my own role as teacher within this legacy. Teaching in active resistance to grading requires foregounding these understandings, both with students and with teaching colleagues. However, asking student to "grade themselves" only further substantiates the grade's viability as either reward or restriction, while also encouraging students to even more deeply internalize its method of control. Collaborative pedagogical strategies promoting relational discourse and reciprocity might make way for learning to occur that is impervious to measurement, but classes organized around principles of mutuality are still the exception, not the norm. Must we become "radically complicit" teachers, as Fred Moten and Stefano Harney suggest, in order to effect institutional change?
In “ALL-REPLYINGLY,” Bethany Ides questions the parameters of the subject in ever-expanding inter... more In “ALL-REPLYINGLY,” Bethany Ides questions the parameters of the subject in ever-expanding internet space that always already encompasses almost everyone. With private murmurings made mobile through forwarding, sharing, and blind carbon copying, the personal email is never anymore just that. The email in its flat reproducibility is set in qualitative contrast to a box of paper letters, with their “pulpy texture” (p. 117) grounding them to the under-bed box of the lover to whom they were addressed.
The authors examine how a too-familiar online platform brokering short-term rentals scrambles mea... more The authors examine how a too-familiar online platform brokering short-term rentals scrambles meaningful expressions of both hospitality and alienation in this experimental work that traces the platform's likenesses, those historical and theoretical contexts which appear to have deteriorated from over-re-circulation. "Lossy Relay" is an invitation to re-invigorate senses of and for care that are not recoupable to capital, but rather hold the capacity to withstand digital collapse (whether that be by revolution or disaster).
Grading can be considered as a knowledge-power technology within a lineage of accountancy, human... more Grading can be considered as a knowledge-power technology within a lineage of accountancy, human management, and disciplinarity. This essay explores how I situate my own role as teacher within this legacy. Teaching in active resistance to grading requires foregounding these understandings, both with students and with teaching colleagues. However, asking student to "grade themselves" only further substantiates the grade's viability as either reward or restriction, while also encouraging students to even more deeply internalize its method of control. Collaborative pedagogical strategies promoting relational discourse and reciprocity might make way for learning to occur that is impervious to measurement, but classes organized around principles of mutuality are still the exception, not the norm. Must we become "radically complicit" teachers, as Fred Moten and Stefano Harney suggest, in order to effect institutional change?
In “ALL-REPLYINGLY,” Bethany Ides questions the parameters of the subject in ever-expanding inter... more In “ALL-REPLYINGLY,” Bethany Ides questions the parameters of the subject in ever-expanding internet space that always already encompasses almost everyone. With private murmurings made mobile through forwarding, sharing, and blind carbon copying, the personal email is never anymore just that. The email in its flat reproducibility is set in qualitative contrast to a box of paper letters, with their “pulpy texture” (p. 117) grounding them to the under-bed box of the lover to whom they were addressed.
The authors examine how a too-familiar online platform brokering short-term rentals scrambles mea... more The authors examine how a too-familiar online platform brokering short-term rentals scrambles meaningful expressions of both hospitality and alienation in this experimental work that traces the platform's likenesses, those historical and theoretical contexts which appear to have deteriorated from over-re-circulation. "Lossy Relay" is an invitation to re-invigorate senses of and for care that are not recoupable to capital, but rather hold the capacity to withstand digital collapse (whether that be by revolution or disaster).
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Published in C Magazine, Issue 138, Summer 2018
Published in C Magazine, Issue 138, Summer 2018