This book brings together a collection of multi-disciplinary voices to discuss, debate, and devise a series of ahuman pedagogical proposals that aim to address the challenging ecological, political, social, economic, and aesthetic milieu within which education is situated today. Attending to contemporary calls to decenter all-too-human educational research and practice, while also coming to terms with the limits and inheritances through which such calls are made possible in the first place, this book aims to interrogate, but also invent, what we are calling an ahuman pedagogy. Organized in three main sections ― Conjuring an Ahuman Pedagogy, Machinic Re/distributions, and Non-pedagogies for Unthought Futures ― this multi-disciplinary experiment in ahuman pedagogies for the age of the Anthropocene offers an experimental – albeit always speculative and incomplete – series of pedagogical proposals that work to unthink and counter-actualize educational futures-as-usual.
Author(s): Jessie L. Beier, Jan Jagodzinski
Series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 305
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction
All-Too-Human Problems
Ahuman Propositions
References
Part I Conjuring an Ahuman Pedagogy
2 Ahuman Occult Pedagogy in Practice
From Mars to Venus
Occultism as Ahuman
Witch Pedagogy
The Occult Natural Contract
References
3 The Literacy Situation: Education and the Dispersal of Politics
The Situation
Distribution and Orientation
The Surround
Control, Territory, and Identity
Opting Out and Caring for Situation
Conclusion
References
4 Educational (Im)possibilities During the Necrocene: Ontological (In)securities and an Ahumanist Existentialism?
Ontological (In)security
Defensive Moves and the Climate Crisis
The (Im)possibility of (De)coloniality and Social Studies Education
The (Im)possibilities of an Ahuman Existentialism
The Human and the Self
The Role of Choice
Radical Hope, Humility, and Death
References
5 Toward an Unsettling Hauntology of Science Education
Part 1: Spectrality and Specters of the Question of Where to “Begin”
Part 2: Ghosts of/as Settler Horror in Science Education
Part 3: Ghostly Inheritances(s); Or, It’s Ghosts all the Way Down
Conclusion: Unsettling Hauntology
References
Part II Machinic (Re)Distributions
6 Mapping Entanglement: Mobilizing the Uncanniness of Machine-Vision
Uncanny Aesthetics
Rituals of Insurrection
Exotica in the Matrix
Conclusion: The Ahuman Art of Wonder
References
7 Transversing Digi-Spaces and Newcomer Youth Encounters: Considering a Minoritarian Politics Online
Reconsidering Minority Communities
Manners of Being
A Note on Newcomer/s
A Collective Aesthetic
What Can a Minoritarian Politics Do?
Considering a Minoritarian-Becoming
Digi-Spaces and N|I Subjectivities
What Can a Digi-Space Do?
Digi-Spaces as Social Machines
Media Wounds and Affective Productions
Traumatic Impacts or Wounds that Cut
TikTok—A Case Desire Analysis
Desires That Standardize
Activating the TikTok User-Creator
Re|Directing and Transforming Algorithmic and Desiring Flows
Final Thoughts
N|I Place|Making and Becoming N|I
A Minoritarian Politics Online?
References
8 Practicing the Future Together: Power, Safety, and Urgency in the Distributed Model
One: Responding to Crisis
Two: The Institutions We Have Aren’t Safe for Us
Three: Shaping a Distributed Response and the Power of Invisibility
Four: Practicing the Future as “Prophetic Organization”
References
Part III Non-Pedagogies for Unthought Futures
9 “Against” Education: A Roundtable on Anarchy and Abolition
What Is Abolition?
Terrains of Abolition
Education as Alibi
Human Strike and the Figure of the Child
No Lessons!
References
10 Terminal Protagonism: Negation and Education in the Anthropocene
References
11 The Cosmoecoartisan: Ahuman Becomings in the Anthropocene
State of Affairs
A Diagram of Cosmological Thought
Wild Speculations on the World-For-Itself and In-Itself: Total Correlational Collapse
What Is a Cosmoecoartisan to Do?
References
12 Ahuman Manifestations: When There Is No Outside (or, a Long, Good Sigh)
References
Index
