Lecture Notes on Research and Public Study

Introduction and Context

• Acknowledgment to exhibition organizers.
• Lecture covers two main points:
  1. The process of becoming research.
  2. A large-scale project in Bergen on infrastructure.

The Role of Research

• Research: Producing new realities, not just academic inquiry.
• Public study and research are core to the collective, Free Thought.
• Not traditional exhibition making but public research.
• Lecture includes reading, talking, showing a project, and time for discussion.

Shift in Education and Research

• Past assumptions about education and research:
  • Education: Personal transformation through world engagement.
  • Research: Investigation of the world to ground knowledge.
• Current context: Neoliberal managerialism and cognitive capitalism.
• Revised understanding of education and research:
  • Knowledge as singular and reinvented.
  • Critical and resistant invention to avoid dominant cultures of evaluation.

Neoliberal Influence and Subjectivity Capture

• Wendy Brown's concept of