Institut Ramon LLull

Pino reflects on literary theory and the educational system to relate her points of contact and friction. By doing so, she offers an itinerary analysing critical moments in which thinking and the academy have both tested their limits, such as the remodelling of the humanities in the wake of May 1968, or the logic of a neoliberal system that has embedded business into education. Here is an account of moments of resistance against society’s disciplinary impulses which unfolds in the form of an intellectual history. Thinkers like Barthes, Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault and Bourdieu are called on to question more deeply the concrete challenges of today such as segregation and bureaucratization of education, or the role of the humanities (in particular literature) in current school curriculums.