Having freely enrolled as students at Clagsborough College, and
having freely selected to read for a licentiate in literary
subversion and dissidence, with all honesty and diligence and
humility, we shall:
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shape our studies around the
insights of learning theory and
autodidactism; |
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develop advanced reading and writing skills,
based on an understanding of language whereby we critically
examine the ways in which language is a tool of
governmental power which shapes who we are, what we do, and how
we make sense of the world;
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become conversant with how the modern world is built
upon and continues to be politically and imaginatively shaped by
colonialism and capitalism, such that
political, social, economic and environmental justice is
impossible without democratic revolutions worldwide; |
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critically examine
social concepts
such as age, childhood, class, crime, disability,
economics, the environment, education, family, gender, health, housing,
media, neurodiversity, power, race, religion, sexuality, society,
text and work
from a post-disciplinary perspective; |
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acknowledge
anthropogenic
climate change and the collapse of biodiversity
both pose an imminent existential threat to Homo sapiens, and
such a threat can only be defeated by grassroots non-violent
direct action, beginning with a switch to a plant-based diet; |
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believe communities and societies governed by
socialist principles and
non-coercive democratic participatory decision
making are together likely to prove the more effective and compassionate
means of establishing and maintaining a just and peaceful world; |
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recognize how all forms of social and environmental injustice are
multidimensional, such that
racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism, and neurelitism are
discursive, performative, structural, and historical, as well as
being mutually co-constitutive; |
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engage in revolutionary non-violent direct action, such as
strikes, marches, community education, lobbying, blogging, civil
disobedience, boycotts and culture jamming, to defend
individuals and communities from social, political, economic,
and environmental injustice; |
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apply the knowledge and skills acquired through studying for
a licentiate in literary subversion and dissidence to write creatively, such that writing is pursued as something that is of
value in itself and as a vital tool for effecting both personal
and political change; |
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facilitate a peaceful
and equitable campus culture
such that everyone feels safe. |
© Fortitude J B Huddlebeck 2022 |