Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. “Language is never neutral.”
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire’s education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the “banking method” of education, wherein a teacher “deposits” knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or “bank”. Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
“Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.”
Paulo Freire
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Inventing a robot that can shit its pants so it has an excuse for why it walks like that
Then inventing a robot that can shit its pants but walk normally
how does the robot produce a shit? is it made out of the same stuff human poop is made of, or is it like a worn out battery that pops out? how often do robots need to shit?
The ones I’d invent do human popp
you’d require a way to ferment food items and a way for the robot to feed itself, because shit is just the foodstuffs we ate but with nutrients removed and fermented by bacteria
good luck, this will be a technical feat for grossology
You’re thinking too hard. When the robot isn’t shitting its pants it walks around collecting human poop and stuffing it in its poop compartment
it needs to keep it in a half-solid state
also it already exists in the form of bird. apparently even fake human baby form too
it requires “water” and “food solution” which is just its own excrement. and you feed it its own doodoo caca for it to do it again.
maybe your hypothesis works if it dries the foraged material and turns it into powder. it can also create artificial sharts at this point
the children yearn for shit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_(art_installation)
finally, artificial shit
Hmm this is more challenging than I thought. I have to study more robotology and poopology before I can take this idea back off the shelf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_(art_installation)
Okay now we give it pants and make it walk
i’d unironically want to study robotics but i am not worth any job based on any passion i’ll ever have in life
In the original story the word Robot comes from, they are actually organic constructs that resemble humans. And presumably eat and shit.
the sandbox-like adventure platformer game “starbound” has robots that eat and shit and are very medieval
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