**A dance of knowing - Understanding and organising the practice of theory-of-practice**
The previous section addressed the basic framing of a curriculum for the revolutionised practice of a revolutionised mode of production: the conceptualising and engaging of forces of production as ‘fabric’, a *weave of living practices*, ordered under radically altered relations of production.
This, if you like, is ‘economics’, and there is a danger that it might be addressed as a matter of technics: mere *forms*, just the handling of 'stuff'. In the present section then, I address what’s at the heart of a college, and of activist capability . . the practical capability to *perform* theory-of-practice, producing radically alternative, working ‘chunks’ of practice: a radically tranformed practice of living and making and cultivating.
Here we’re concerned with ‘cultural’ production: capabilities of knowing, communicating, organising: with the producing and mobilising of *labour power*; that is, cultural **formations**.
It’s apparent to me that Robin and I - and whole cohorts of our organic-intellectual peers world-wide - embarked, in the 70s, on a practical investigation of how to make and mobilise theory-of-practice. There’s a zeitgeist at work. So, here I’m attempting to draw down the history of that generational project.
Historically, it's an aspect of post-Fordist development. The practice of theory-of-practice is implicated in both the curriculum of a college of activist literacy, and in the *architecture* of the college - that is, its ‘hidden’, tacit, *enacted*, performed curriculum.
There are two forks of my own practice which turned out to be the personal, biographical itinerary or curriculum of this ever-so-practical study. I’ll take these as a framing here; or an instantiation. The first fork was radical professionalism and facilitative practice, and the other was cultural materialism.
I’ll review these here, next. The structure of the full section is as follows: - Radical professionalism, facilitative practice - Altered relations of production, radical knowing - A turn to practice - Dance of knowing - Pattern language(ing) as a dance of knowing for the college - Rigours, plural - Notes on code - The digital as a hybrid material-cultural and cultural-aesthetic landscape - Schools in the faculty of formaciòn work
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