The Invisible School: Knowledge Networks and the Curriculum of Nowhere reconstructs the shadow history of an institution that officially never existed — a nomadic university that migrated through time, space, and ideology. Operating without buildings, accreditation, or records, The Invisible School is said to have gathered poets, scientists, mystics, and dissidents in temporary zones of radical thought. From derelict factories in 1920s Prague to disused satellites in low orbit, its “campuses” appeared and disappeared without trace, leaving behind only fragments — lecture notes, codewords, marginalia, and rumours.
This book assembles those traces. Part investigation, part philosophical treatise, it proposes that The Invisible School may have been the unseen engine behind many of the great paradigm shifts of the 20th and 21st centuries — from cybernetics and psychoanalysis to conceptual art and artificial intelligence.
Structured as a series of recovered lectures, correspondences, and field reports, Knowledge Networks and the Curriculum of Nowhere explores what happens when education detaches from place, authority, and identity. The result is a haunting cartography of knowledge: a map drawn from absence, showing how invisible institutions shape visible thought.
The Invisible School: Knowledge Networks and the Curriculum of Nowhere
Harley Palmer