Introduction

The reconceptualization of curriculum in the 1970s rightly revolted against the technical objectification of curriculum and its perverse result: the existential impoverishment of teachers and students into objects. The language of curriculum, of course, has a wider footing, one which extends into corporate and other organizational vocabularies. Curriculum theory should certainly afflict the comfortable, but today it seems quite comfortable in comforting the afflicted and even this moralistic comfort must be afflicted and complicated anew. The words ‘syllabus’ and ‘curriculum’ share something of a Latin shell, lacking strong internal etymological roots or strict grammatical parameters of declension or case in their Anglophone usage. The language of curriculum, of course, has a wider footing, one which extends into corporate and other organizational vocabularies. Why is the point to live everything? Is a curriculum vitae even desirable? There are clearly things we could and perhaps should all live without. A curriculum vitae is the Dasein, existential interval of the curriculo perrenis.