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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam > Blaise Pascal Instituut > Girard Studiekring > COV&R 2007 > Abstracts Papers
DANIEl LANCE
Limits
of Communication and Communication at the Limit with Socially or Scholastically
Marginal Teenagers in an Experimental Center in South of France
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to think about communication pushed to its limits with marginal teenagers refusing the traditional educational system. This paper is both grounded in empirical work of five years spent with an educational team with those teenagers at the same time that it is included in the theories of mimetic desire and the one of philosophy of communication. The specific context is the education of teenagers who have rejected social and school systems and who are received, at a maximum of twelve at a time, in small and well-structured educational settings called in France Classes relais. Theses teenagers seem to have created a new logophobia, through refusing everything which is part of the conventional and dominant language: Ill choose the opposite of what you desire, they seem to say. Nevertheless, our team had a meaningful and moving experience with these Students. We were able to go beyond mimetic desire and to reach a true dialogue with them. This paper reflects on ethics and exclusion and how our classes able to transcend violent reciprocity.
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Daniel Lance, PhD
in Literature, PhD in Sciences of Information and Communication
University Nice
Sophia Antipolis (France).