新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Abstract

This article uses the perspectives of Deleuze, and Marx to examine the labors’narrative from local villages, Qianzhen and New-Caoya, in Kaohsiung. We want to point out that they are not just workers who do their work, but a machine can continue to create and generate differences in routine and become a singularity. Such machine is no longer merely repetitive technical operations but can continuously break through existing boundaries and shape their own subjectivity in practice, and also change and reconstruct their own living conditions through labour. It’s a survival activity involves not only physical labor, but also intellectual activity.

Two workers from Qianzhen and New-Caoya, Chen, a shipbreaker in the NewCaoya area, and Jian, an oil pumper, used the example to explain how they can see the social relationship between themselves and the other through labour, and explore self-identity from this context. We point out that Chen and Jian are not just a coolie or housewife, however, facing the poor living conditions and environment they become shipbreaking expertise and entrepreneur. In this process, we see not only subjectivity, but also the energy of life. In this series of changes, we see how they moved, transitioned, and settled in Qianzhen district.

Following such labor value within entrepreneuring education, we initial that the higher education should be to train mechanically learner with positive and pioneering connections like Chen and Jian, rather than mechanistically learner with passive, and waiting to receive instructions.