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`Vigilant hospitality'

The online imperative and teaching cultural studies

University of Queensland, Australia, tony.thwaites{at}mailbox.uq.edu.au

• Information technology (IT) sees information as a fluid, to be stored, regulated and exchanged. This is a profoundly economic model, whose dreams are those of the marketplace — and now, university managers. But no teacher, of course, holds that teaching can be reduced to the movement of information from one point to another. Teaching is never quite absorbed into the models of IT. Where they meet, we do not have the utopia of the virtual classroom, at last freed from the strictures of timetables and the face-to-face; we have, rather, the grinding of two radically irreducible models. This has nothing to do with Luddism; on the contrary, it is the value and necessity of IT for us at present, as teachers. At a time when the tertiary sector's massive investment in IT is motivated in part by its own dream of the teacherless classroom, one of the pressing tasks for us may be simply to argue as rigorously as we can the structural necessity of our own position as teachers, without nostalgia or humanist sentimentality. •

Key Words: cultural studies • information • information technology • Lacan • pedagogy • transference • iek

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, 479-493 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/13678779020050040701


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