{"id":15301,"date":"2014-10-05T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-a-teacher-so-mostly-what-i-do-is-to-make\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T10:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T10:58:55","slug":"im-a-teacher-so-mostly-what-i-do-is-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-a-teacher-so-mostly-what-i-do-is-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m a teacher, so mostly what I do is to make students feel aspirational anxiety about what\u2019s valuable about them. This situation can\u2019t be good for anyone. So I\u2019ve developed a thing to say in class about what it means to see a classroom as a solidaristic space. I say, I could lecture you via email, but there\u2019s a reason classrooms exist. It\u2019s to help you to practice sustaining a thought beyond what you can do now. Everyone has their own style of lapsing into incoherence: it\u2019s our job to pick you up where your thought loses its shape, and to take it somewhere. In that way we create solidarity. It\u2019s impersonal, it\u2019s not about who you are biographically. It\u2019s about what it means to collaborate. Sometimes this speech works, sometimes not. Recently I was at a meeting about teaching. I told some version of this story, and about how my experiences on communes had made me committed to collegiality as a form of collaborative support toward building a collective world that didn\u2019t exist yet. Someone at the table began to cry, saying I\u2019ve been here a decade and never thought I\u2019d hear the word solidarity here. I conclude that whatever solidarity is as process, people sense its absence as a presence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Lauren Berlant, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areachicago.org\/p\/issues\/solidarities\/solidarity-stories\/\">Solidarity Stories<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/oxxenfree.tumblr.com\/\">oxxenfree<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a teacher, so mostly what I do is to make students feel aspirational anxiety about what\u2019s valuable about them. This situation can\u2019t be good for anyone. So I\u2019ve developed a thing to say in class about what it means to see a classroom as a solidaristic space. I say, I could lecture you via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3YN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}