*Scale* The dominant problems of the contemporary moment are transnational, effecting planetary systems and the plural biotic, abiotic and metabiotic actors that make up this world.1 One of the goals of Euromodernity was to render the Universal legible, a goal that involved standardisation, classification, categorisation, and homogenisation.2 Through these processes, scalable methodologies aimed to be…
*Possibility* In Hermès V, Michel Serres speaks of the Northwest Passage, the sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.1 It is a place where the earth, sky, and water alternately melt and freeze together. As the seasons turn, the passage appears and disappears again; the archipelago breathes. This means that when we want to navigate…
*Failure* ‘Under certain circumstances failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world’. 1 Transdisciplinary education at its most counter-hegemonic, deconstructs what James C. Scott terms ‘legibility’. Scott defines legibility as being the disciplinary specific need for standardisation and uniformity…
*Collaboration* …at stake (…) are the effective conditions of an encounter, not the recognition of submission. Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics II. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. In Cosmopolitics II, Isabelle Stengers writes about the figure of the diplomat. The diplomat is sent to establish or maintain a (diplomatic) relationship. On the one hand, this means she…
*Assessment* “to be in but not of (…) the university” Stefano Harney & Fred Moten In The Undercommons, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten speak of the subversive intellectual. 1 Unable to accept that the university is a place of enlightenment and simultaneously unable to deny that it is also a place of refuge, she develops…