This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals, objects, stuff, and other forms of matter. Contemporary postdigital ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational reconfigurations in areas including capitalism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, and ontological hierarchies more generally. Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call for experimentation to link pedagogical research and practice to challenges of our moment. They pose living, breathing, expanding, contracting, fluid, and spatial conditions and questions of our non-chronological present. This book presents analyses of that present from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to education studies, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, and architecture.
Author(s): Petar Jandrić, Derek R. Ford
Series: Postdigital Science and Education
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 311
City: Cham
Series Editor’s Preface
References
Foreword: The Time Has Come but Has it Gone
References
Introduction: The Many Faces of Postdigital Ecopedagogies
Times of Ruptures, Times of Continuations
What’s in the Book?
Part 1: The Educational and Intellectual Coordinates of Postdigital Ecopedagogies
Part 2: Postdigital Ecopedagogies in Global Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Struggles
Part 3: The Aesthetics of Postdigital Ecopedagogies
The Many Faces of Postdigital Ecopedagogies
References
Acknowledgement
Contents
About the Editors
About the Authors
Part I: The Educational and Intellectual Coordinates of Postdigital Ecopedagogies
Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures
We Need New Utopias
The Ecopedagogy Movement
Critical Philosophy of Technology and Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
Big Data, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligences, and New Capitalisms
Bioinformational Capitalism and Viral Modernity
Anti-imperialist, Anti-colonial, and Decolonization Studies/Movements
Postdigital Feminisms
Intersectionality and Identity Politics as Ecologies of Collective Resistance
(Critical) Posthumanism and Transhumanism
Critical Disability Studies
Queer Theories
Postdigital Aesthetics
(Science) Fiction and Future Studies
Myth, Religion, and Belief
Towards New Postdigital Ecopedagogies
References
Postdigital Ecopedagogies of Attainment and Progress
Introduction
The Idea of Progress as Wider Than McProgress
Chronological Progress That Leads to A Better Future?
Educational Assumptions of Progress in McPolicy and The Scala Naturae
Debates and Underpinning Assumptions
Temporal Assumptions and Postdigital Convergences
Environmental Assumptions and Success as Progress
Technological Assumptions and Failure in A Neoliberal Context
Assumptions About Educationalization and ‘Harnessing’ Technology and Data
Postdigital Stalking of Policy Commitments to Identify Progress
Disrupting the Very Grammar of Justice
From A Neoliberal Model of Progress Towards Bioeconomical Progress
From Political Economic Discourse in Education to A Political Bioeconomic Discourse
References
From the Knowable and Transparent Individual to the Secret Thought of Individuation: An Anti-Capitalist Postdigital Ecopedagogy
Introduction
The Postdigital Landscape of Contemporary Ecopedagogy
Capitalist Postdigital Ecopedagogy
The Terror of Transparency
Postdigital Ecopedagogy Against Capital: From the Transparent Individual to Thought of Individuation
Disorienting Individuality and Knowledge
Conclusion
References
Composting The Anti-Human University
Introduction: The Living Death of Capitalism
How Shall We Live? A Pedagogical Imperative
Capitalist Higher Education and Webs of Living Death
The University and Capitalism’s Social Metabolic Control
Ecological Distress and The Toxic Morbidity of The University
Knowing The World Otherwise
Composting The Anti-Human University
References
Insurrectional and Pandoran Democracy, Military Perversion and The Quest for Environmental Peace: The Last Frontiers of Ecopedagogy Before Us
Introduction
The Fragile Democratic Foundation Holding Us Up/Down
Contextualizing Democracy Within the Postdigital Context
Some of the Military Environmental Destruction
Cultivating the Eco in (the) Pedagogy, and Democratizing the Environment
Conclusion
References
Part II: Postdigital Ecopedagogies in Global Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Struggles
Biopolitics, Postdigital Temporality and the New Chronic: Pedagogical Praxis Within, Against, and Beyond the Meantime
Introduction: An Emerging Matrix of Power and New Logic of Temporality
The Biopolitical
The Question of Life
State of Exception
The Biological Turn in the War on Terror: The Case of Project BioShield
Cascading States of Exception, and their Nefarious Technologies
There is No Alternative: The Meantime and the Epistemological Closure of Alternatives
Decolonizing Dominant and Imperialist Narratives: Breaking the Binds of the Meantime
Genealogical Analysis Beyond the Meantime
The Subjective Figures of the New Chronic Mode and the Temporal Formation of the Meantime
Pedagogical Praxis Within, Against, and Beyond the Meantime
References
Ecopedagogy Disrupting Postdigital Divides of (Neo)Coloniality, (Eco)Racism, and Anthropocentricism: A Case Study
Introduction
Ecopedagogical Postdigitalism: Grounding development and Planetary Sustainability
Ecopedagogy, Freire, and Technologies
Critical Issues and Theories to Weave: A Non-Exhaustive List
Globalization as Neocoloniality Divides
Neoliberal Divides
Imaginaries, Anthropocentricism, and Othering Divides
Case Study: Postdigital, Ecopedagogical Project-Based Course
Course and Design Setup
Philosophical Frameworks Used in Our Learning
Systems Thinking
Vulnerability
Positive Deviance: Utilizing TikTok for a Mass Literacy Campaign
Failure to Get to Eco-Racism and Indigenous/Southern Wisdom
Critical Race Theory and Counter-Storytelling of Nature
Concluding: Outside Digital Spaces Essential
References
Pan-African Socialism and Postdigital Considerations
A Postdigital Ecopedagogy
Pan-Africanism
Kwame Nkrumah
Neocolonialism
Amilcar Cabral
Cabral’s Dialectics
De-Africanization and Anti-colonial Resistance
Anti-colonialism and Decoloniality
Freire and Decolonial Education in a Liberated Guinea-Bissau
Cabral’s Ongoing Relevance
Conclusion
References
The Postdigital Settler Spectacle: An Educators’ Dérive to Unveil a ‘New Colonizer’ During Covid-19
Introduction
Definition of Terms
Use of Accessible Language
Defining For Ourselves The ‘Postdigital’
Desiring the Colonizer’s ‘Deeper Vision’
Whose Ethic? Transhumanism, Humanity, and Prioritized Relationships
Shifting our Gaze: Welcome to the Postdigital Settler Spectacle
Autoethnography and the Theory of the Dérive
Use of Indigenous and Allied Autoethnographies
Use of the Theory of the Dérive
Mo’s Autoethnography: ‘Allied’ Perspective on Reality, Ritual, and Support
Hugh’s Autoethnography: An Indigenous Perspective on Family, Work, and Culture
In Observation of the Movement of The Spectacle
Fragment 1: Settler City Spaces
Fragment 2: Settler Technology Spaces
Fragment 3: In-Between Decolonized Spaces
Conclusion: What Does Experience on the Land Reveal about the Settler Spectacle?
Acts of Identifying, Disrupting, and Resisting the Postdigital Settler Spectacle
By Whose Ethic are We Being Led?
Special Authors’ Note: A Dérive Beyond Settler Borders
References
A Modest Proposal for A Pedagogy of Alienation
Introduction
Part One: Unpacking our Narratives
What Constitutes a Class?
Presence As a Proxy for Engagement
How Do We Create Connection?
Depoliticization and Bicultural Competence
On Affect
Uncertain Contexts for Resistance and Refusal
Part Two: A Messianic Dystopian Vision for a Pedagogy of Alienation
On Anger, Rage, and ‘The Impossibility of Reconciliation’
Solidarities For the Multitude(s)
Scyborg Wanderings: Undoing the Promise of Happiness
Conclusion
References
Part III: The Aesthetics of Postdigital Ecopedagogies
Towards Second-Wave Architectural Ecopedagogies
The Responsibility of Architectural Education
Architecture And the Non-Human Environment
The Postdigital in Architecture
Three Architectural Ecopedagogies
Arcosanti (1970–)
Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1975–81)
The Centre for Alternative Technology (1973–)
Towards Second-Wave Architectural Ecopedagogies
Coda
References
Postdigital Intercreative Pedagogies: Ecopedagogical Practices for the Commons
Introduction
Sustainable Production of Knowledge
Creativity at Crossroads: Homo Collaborans and Homo Economicus
Postdigital Ecopedagogy
Intercreativity as a Pedagogical Process
Ecopedagogical Praxis for the Commons
Free Culture from Education
Quadraginta: Collective Audio-Visual Reflection in the Time of Covid-19
Conclusion
References
Ripple Effects: New Frameworks for Learning in Postcommodity’s Sound Art
Introduction
Restless Spirits
Healing the Tower
Between Two Worlds
New Frameworks
References
Malfunctioning Right in Our Backyards OR The Strangeness of Ecological Awareness
Introduction
Our Alchemy Symbols
Malfunctionings and Gaps
Media(tions), Infrastructure, and Environmentality
Susceptibility: Into Our Backyards
Farewell! And Now the Haunting…
Conclusion: Toward Malfunctioning and Pleasure
References
Afterword: Towards an Ecopedagogy of Revolutionary Optimism in The Age of Climate Crisis
References
Index
