Abstract
The University is a site of distributed cognition. Or: a site for the distribution of cognition, a site for the monetised exchange of cognition between embodied nodes (whereas the site of the thinking of this exchange is ‘elsewhere’). The exchange may be between people (students and staff) or it may be between bank accounts (mine and theirs). In another sense, the exchange involves the educating present being given as a loan from the indebted future to secure the servicing of said debt. Those who wish to acquire certain socialised cognitive processes come here if they want those processes to be demonstrable; is its object the learnt cognitive process, their confirmed repeatability, or the certification of a warranted certifier? This is the distribution centre of certificates of demonstration. The ‘University of Life’ does not, to the best of our knowledge, distribute certificates.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Argos Aotearoa |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |