Writing, subject and knowing: the case of university teaching

• Main Author: Cecilia Blezio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 0101-9031; 1984-6444; 10.5902/198464445912
• Keywords: Writing; Subject; University teaching.; Education; L
• Source: Educação (Santa Maria. Online), Vol 38, Iss 1, Pp 111-121 (2013)

Writing, as an intimate and singular gesture, evidences a peculiar relationship between subject and knowing. In the teaching situations, it works as the remains of the unrepeatable event. In the dynamics of knowing-knowledge, what is wrote is situated on the side of re-signification, which is always provisional, and writing would be in the path from de-signification towards re-signification. In this movement, the function of writing is unique: there is something that can only be learnt by writing and not reading. At university, through the academic texts, it is built - or, better said, acquired - the position of the researcher, though the academic text drives to the functioning of science. Writing convokes certain knowing and leaves a testimony of that knowing; but knowing is always unknown, or lack of knowledge.Writing is an act of implication that always confronts with castration.