The Strange Death of the University, Part 4: The Strange Death of Knowledge

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 100 We all know academia is in trouble. In fact, we’re not even sure it can be saved. To put it simply, the university is dying. To be sure, it’s a strange death, however, because the university is in some sense going back to its roots, returning to being theological seminaries, though in a completely new religion. That religion is the transformative religion of Dialectical Leftism, and its materialist watchword in the 21st century is “Sustainability.” In this New Discourses Podcast series, host James Lindsay takes the listener through a 2022 UNESCO book, Knowledge-driven Actions: Transforming Higher Education for Global Sustainability (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380519/ ), that calls upon all “higher education institutions” to transform themselves so that they align, promote, and help complete the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a part of the 2030 Agenda. In this fourth and final episode of the series, host James Lindsay takes the listener through the third chapter of this manipulative UNESCO document. (Chapters four and five are left as homework!) This chapter features one of the most dangerous and manipulative concepts to come out of the Woke Marxist movement, not least thanks to the work done by Paulo Freire: other ways of knowing. In this chapter, you can hear how the "ways of knowing" in the natural sciences have to be adjusted, modified, and made pluralistic alongside activism, the arts, humanities, and the social sciences, especially feminism and "Indigeneity" in service to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030. All knowledge must serve the new regime, and all knowing systems have to be redesigned to serve its agendas. This is truly the death of the university in the making, and it is a strange death from within, indeed. Join James to hear about how truth is to be replaced by agenda throughout what used to be deserving of being called universities. Part 1: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/strange-death-university-part-1-red-thread/ Part 2: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/strange-death-university-part-2-new-sensibility/ Part 3: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/the-strange-death-of-the-university-part-3-the-strange-death-of-science/ Pre-order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to the new discourses podcast and welcome back to our little series
0:26.0	on the Strange Death of the University in which we're exploring this somewhat horrific UNESCO document
0:34.8	from Knowledge Driven Actions. This is the title of the document, Transforming Higher Education
0:41.2	for Global Sustainability. Pardon me. So we are entering into the fourth episode in this series,
0:51.5	which I expect will be the last. I don't think I'm going to read through chapters four and five
0:56.9	of this document as podcasts. We can leave those for homework, but to kind of summarize,
1:01.4	this is a 100-page document published by UNESCO. That's the United Nations, Education, Science
1:08.0	and Cultural Organization, and it was published this year in 2022. This document is quite explicit
1:16.7	as we've been hearing. Its point is to transform all higher education institutions in the world to
1:22.8	be vehicles to achieve the sustainable development goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030,
1:30.1	which in the previous episode, which was about conquering your discipline and the strange death of
1:34.9	science, the natural science as being a particular target for them. We pointed out that the kind of
1:42.2	irony is that the only people who trust the idea of the United Nations Agenda 2030 are the people
1:47.0	who actually think it's a conspiracy theory, and that it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It's a
1:53.7	conspiracy theory, but we have to trust it. It's not happening, but here's why it's good that it is.
1:59.8	That's the logic every single time. So in this fourth and final episode of this document, we're
2:06.8	going to explore chapter three, which is titled Ways of Knowing. This is where they're going to go
2:11.8	after transforming knowledge production itself, epistemology into a, as Paulo Ferri might have it,
2:19.6	a no theological attitude, a nocyist, a, you know, a special knowledge driven approach where,
2:27.8	of course, what we're going to find out is that we have to incorporate other ways of knowing so that
2:31.6	we can achieve the sustainable development goals, because they're not going to be achieved by the
2:35.8	usual ways of knowing, which would show this to be an agenda driven pile of bullshit.
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