Colonialization of Knowledge

The process of producing and validating what is knowledge in the academy can be a colonial exercise. Rather than heralding a knowledge that allows learners to develop a counter culture, a colonial process can actually reward the knowledge that inserts learners within...

Disorderly Play

How might we engage in disorderly play? How often do you play towards order? In the West we often create ways towards order. However, some Eastern philosophers view order as transient while chaos as ever-present. Order is what we float on to the chaos. Chaos is just...

Huizinga was concerned with play in its widest dimensions. In his view, sport is connected to art, music, poetry, religion, jurisprudence, and warfare. All are highly regulated opportunities for human expression where creativity is a commentary on public forms and forces.

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