Undissertation Notes: A Collective Unraveling

10 Parts (with additional subheadings that include illustrations, short stories, pop-up questions, quotes, etc...) | ~55, 000 words | 222 pages | 5.5” x 8.5” | Open Access (and/or $20 suggested contribution)

The floor is lava. The cube is education. Discipline solves the cube. This undissertation will not "solve" the cube by assembling all of the sides to the superiority of the central color; rather this "un code" plays, dissembles, reassembles, and questions beyond the sides of education discipline. The cube is a symbol. We do not play to become a problem solver in the pursuit of happyness moments rather to engage in the codes and modes that dictate and discipline what play looks like, what education looks like, what knowledge creation looks like. What would it mean to be engaged in an undiscipline journey? We seek to unravel, resist, engage, and plant seeds:

  • unravel dominant ways of knowledge production to collectively give birth to freedom;
  • resist annihilation of ourselves and communities, who are hyper-surveilled and frequently written in "statement of the problems" as "things" to solve;
  • engage in conversations across time and space to learn about the ways in which people refuse disciplinary mechanisms of knowledge production’; and,
  • plant seeds to be grown in different gardens by different students at different times
The "un code" is a curation of a journey with the undissertation experience. We unravel these codes through conversations to make familiar education rituals strange and strange "un codes" familiar – like mixing the colors in the Rubik cubes to create new symmetries of resistance, while questioning the core, the center that makes education situations "unsolvable."

UN-REPERTOIRE (Outline)

"UN CODE" PORTAL
DISCLAIMER TEXT

PART I RESEARCH PROBLEM Un-pre-proposal Portal
Introduction: An Un-Pre-Proposal Un-marking
KALEIDOSCOPE PORTAL
Theoretical/Conceptual Rationale/Framework (kaleidoscope)
UNIVERSITY DRIVE THRU PORTAL
Kaleidoscopic Vision University Drive Thru
"LIT" Review
BLOCK PARTY Portal
"LIT REVIEW"
Welcome to the BLOCK PARTY!
Liberation Ammunition: Six Bullets
Statement of the Problem (annihilation)
Purpose Statement (unraveling: a non-linear story)
Background & Need (unmet needs)
Research Questions Re-search Quest-ions &Pop-up Conversations
Limitations/Delimitations (delimit)
Education Significance (inherent)

Part II: LITERATURE REVIEW BLOCK PARTY ENCORE PORTAL
BLOCK PARTY ENCORE IN THE WAKE
Where is the BLOCK PARTY? In the Wake
Finding the others
bleak, sacken, backless…blackness as anagrammatical
Liberated Zones

Part III UNmethodology PORTAL
breaking vases and the a/symmetries of refusal
CONVERSATION FRAGMENTS
Conversation Journey: Re/assembling Fragments with Professor Derrick Bell

Re/assembling Fragments STORIES PORTAL
Brief Prelude Quote
Cookie Monster's Cookie Allergy
Pop-up Quest-ions I
AAA
Pop-up Quest-ions II
SCHOOL IPO (also called An Anti-Chronicle on the Grammar of Empire)
Pop-up Quest-ions III
SCHOOL—SHIP
Pop-up Quest-ions IV
THE WATCHERS
Pop-up Quest-ions V
GOLDEN ROULETTE
Pop-up Quest-ions VI

Remembering Unpositionality

TRANSCRIPTS
Pop-up Quest-ions VII
KNOWLEDGE BROKER
Pop-up Quest-ions VIII
THE WAVES (AN OUTLINE)
Pop-up Quest-ions IX
[THE TENTH STORY]
Pop-up Quest-ions X

Part IV FINDINGS Lost and Found PORTAL
Lost and Found
COLONIAL CHARTER LIABILITY FORM (CCLF)
EDUCATION GAME CASE
COURSE CATALOGUE
Dearly Student ID #999999 beloved

Part V CLOSING Openings PORTAL
Openings

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