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Susan Buck Morss: “What Benjamin found in the child’s consciousness, badgered out of existence by bourgeois education and so crucial to redeem (albeit in new form), was precisely the unsevered connection between perception and action that distinguished revolutionary consciousness in adults.” — Are.na

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via https://twitter.com/ChildFragments/status/1422565312231268355 “What Benjamin found in the child’s consciousness, badgered out of existence by bourgeois education and so crucial to redeem (albeit in new form), was precisely the unsevered connection between perception and action that distinguished revolutionary consciousness in adults. Children’s cognition had revolutionary power because it was tactile, and hence tied to action, and because rather than accepting the given meaning of things, children got to know objects by laying hold of them and using them creatively, releasing from them new possibilities of meaning. Bourgeois socialization suppressed this activity: Parroting back the “correct” answer, looking without touching, solving problems “in the head”… It might follow, moreover, that the triumph of such cognition in adults at the same time signaled their defeat as revolutionary subjects. But, so long as there were children, this defeat would never be complete.” –Susan Buck-Morss

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