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On Sunday 22nd May, 2016 The Precarious University held the symposium ‘Towards a New Concept of the Art School as part of Chorlton Arts Festival, 2016. The symposium aimed to form a critical discourse on the art school’s history and potential and construct a radically open and popular concept of the art school for the 21st Century within the unique surroundings of the Smallest Sculpture Park in the World garden. The resulting dialogue between participants is transcribed, in abridged form, here.

Theoretical resources for THE PRECARIOUS UNIVERSITY (Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester, 20-29 MAY 2016)

Althusser, L. (1971) 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. trans. Ben Brewster, London, New Left Books. pp 127-86.

Foucault, M. (1977) 'Panopticism' in Discipline and Punish. Harmondsworth, Penguin. pp. 195-228.

Williams, J. (2006) 'The Pedagogy of Debt' in Edu-Factory Collective, (2009) Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, the Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory, New York, Autonomedia. pp. 89-96.

Engels, F. (1844) 'Conditions of the Working Class in England' [online] Available <www.marxists.org>

Theoretical resources for THE PRECARIOUS UNIVERSITY (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton Wakefield, 20 AUG 2015)

LCAC/@.AC (2015) Precarious University Call For Participants.

Althusser, L. (1964) 'Student Problems', Radical Philosophy 170, Nov/Dec 2011. pp. 8-15.

Rancière, J., (2011 [1974]) Althusser’s Lesson. London and New York, Continuum.

@.ac (2013) Manifesto