This episode is the second excerpt from a public talk Steve Volan gave last fall at the Collins Living-Learning Center in Bloomington, called "Doppelgänger Cities: A History of Campuses." The first excerpt was Episode 29 of The 812, posted February 23.

As you may know, Steve was a member of the city council here for the last 20 years, in a district that was almost entirely students at IU. After redistricting, more students than ever were drawn into District 6, and the district is now represented by a recent IU graduate of typical undergraduate age. (We recommend you go back and listen to our interview with Sydney Zulich in Episode 14, on February 2.)

While in that role, and to better come to terms with the state jurisdiction that had such great impact on his local jurisdiction, Steve authored a master's thesis looking into the origin of campuses. In Part 2, he weaves together the work of sociologist Ray Oldenberg and philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben to illustrate the problems created by the substitition of "campus" for a regular urban environment, and analyzes the problematic everyday vocabulary of the campus that infantilizes the people it's supposed to serve.

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