Aleksa Bijelovic
https://doi.org/10.60152/d7f04uit
Abstract: The aim is to reveal common occurrences and tendencies of the contemporary interdisciplinary setting, academic and professional, within the dominant system in education (market) production, in which many of us play a part. How does a particular actor perceive their role and these relationships, and is there a way to transcend the string of circumstances and imagine what may be possible instead? With this comes the individual actor and their systemic social tendencies, the relations of apparent freedoms contracted in wages and fees, in contrast to the captivity of precarious independence. Individual motives and capacity to partake in the production processes may yield different structural dynamics in different contexts, although the assumption is that modern social conditions do not cater to systemic varieties and that if any truly diversified outputs of the education-industry (market) supply chain exist — it must be a glitch. One of the main points to consider is to challenge this assumption to see if the speculation stands ground at all, and with that, if we care for liberatory perspectives in education, presuming emancipation from the dominant system is attractive. If diverse outputs do occur in practice, no matter how rarely, then there may be some value in detecting and investigating them in unison to explore structural similarities that can potentially inform new theories and daily doings. A consequential objective is to assess concepts of production glitches as material deviations from educational conventions, resulting from accidental or intentional actions. Whether one sabotages the mundane conditions of one’s daily work or (alongside it) tries to implement new strategies, hoping for a paradigm shift, it is about the deviations as realities of practice leading to new awareness.
Keywords: fetish, autodidact, cultural tools, cognition, intention
How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):
Bijelovic, A. (2025) ‘Of Realised Cultural Tools as Fetish and Autodidactic Paradox; On to Smysl and Folklore’, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 41–47.
See publication On Architecture (2025) Conference Proceedings