Empirical wanderings

Adopting the rhizome as the means for learning to be a teacher ruptures the interpretation of theory (Delenze, 1995) and privileges experimentation and experience, taking the student teachers on, in Derrida s (1992a) terms, an empirical wandering ... 

The conquerors of our days, peoples or princes, want their empire to possess a unified surface over which the superb eye of power can wander without encountering any inequality which hurts or limits its view. The same code of law, the same measures, the same rules, and if we could gradually get there, the same language that is what is proclaimed as the perfection of the social organization.. . . The great slogan of the day is uniformity. 

This chapter on the embedment of classical ideals in the western consciousness concludes with an example of partial acceptance. The Visigoths wandered the empire before founding a kingdom in Spain, but their architecture is peculiarly austere not necessarily crude but pervaded by an under-exploitation of the technology available to them from their conquests (figure 2.6).2 They wanted the motifs but not the refinement that the Roman masons subject to them could produce. 

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