Invention

According to Derrida (Acts of Literature, 1992) invention is not invention if it does not break with existing institutional procedures. How true this is of innovation and the behavioural & attitudinal inventions from a process of learning! When coupled (in the previous posts) with the overt political functions of exec.ed, invention within and for the subject of education serves to open up the present in order to let the other come: opening, uncloseting, destabilising foreclusionary structures.

Then, exec.ed is an experience of the impossible in that it involves the coming about of something other in the ‘impossible’ above.

Is there a distinction between exec.ed and personal learning? Where personal learning can be changed, added to, is subject to conditions and is modifiable: and where exec.ed is that in the name of which personal learning is modified, added to, is subject to conditions and is modifiable. So that exec.ed is a metaphysical condition of personal learning – um, not sure. But this would mean that exec.ed cannot be experienced other than through personal learning. It is in this way that exec.ed is IMPOSSIBLE.

Is there an unconditional type of exec.ed? That is, does there exist a distinction between contingent or conditional exec.ed and absolute or unconditional exec.ed? Executivezen is not sure if unconditional exec.ed is possible, given that it cannot be experienced other than through personal learning. Maybe, though, this personal learning/exec.ed distinction is untenable. Could this distinction exist in the same way as the distinction between conditional law and unconditional justice? Is the parallel mapping between education and learning?