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ESTRAGON: The best thing would be to kill me, like the other.

VLADIMIR: What other? [Pause.] What other?

ESTRAGON: Like billions of others.

VLADIMIR: [Setentious.] To every man his little cross. [He sighs.] Till he dies. [Afterthought.] And is forgotten.

ESTRAGON: In the meantime let us try and converse calmy, since we are incapable of keeping silent.

VLADIMIR: You're right, we're inexhaustible.

ESTRAGON: It's so we won't think.

VLADIMIR: We have that excuse.

[Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot]

On 18th September 2015 - as part of the 'Techniques of Art and Protest' conference hosted by the PLANK Research Network - myself, Hollie Mackenzie & Dr Iain MacKenzie hosted a workshop entitled Learning, Exchange, and Play: Practicing a Deleuzian Pedagogy. In this workshop, we invited participants into a classroom configured as a space of encounters.

We also worked with Ben Cook from Anti/Type who directed, produced, and scored this excellent short film on the experience.

This space - a first iteration of a larger project on philosophy, experimental pedagogy, politics, and art - would not have been possible without the wonderful people behind The Dark Would at the University of Warwick.