Against Students — Sara Ahmed
“...it is in the bodies of students that...failure is located. Students are not transmitting the right message or are evidence that we have failed to transmit the right message. Students have become an error message, a beep, beep, that is announcing the failure of a whole system.”
What does it mean to be “against students”?
In this essay, self-proclaimed feminist killjoy Sara Ahmed examines the “moral panic about moral panics” taking place within the university. Contrasting the supposed oppression of “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” against the real neoliberal impoverishment of education, Ahmed shows how the university has already positioned itself against students and encourages us to pay attention to the “error message” of student critiques of university life.
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