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33Philosophers and professors behaving badly: Responses to ‘named or nameless’ by Besley, Jackson & Peters. An EPAT collective writing projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (3): 272-284. 2023.
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17On the public pedagogy of conspiracy: An EPAT collective projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14): 2409-2421. 2022.What is it about conspiracies that make them so attractive and easy to believe yet difficult to debunk? Is the epistemological process of debunking the best or only pedagogy for dislodging conspiracies? Are all conspiracies irrational and/or unverifiable? To what extent, if at all, do today’s social media conspiracies differ from conspiracies in the past?
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10<I>The Last Book of Postmodernism comprises set of essays written on and about 'postmodernism' and education. It is written in an apocalyptic tone that treats themes of religion and spiritualism, drawing on poststructuralist sources of inspiration, to contrast the present 'postmodern condition' and the philosophical significance and historical influence of Nietzsche's statement 'God is dead.' The book considers the meaning of the 'end' of Christendom and the prospect of global spirituality. It…Read more
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13This paper discusses the notion of ecopoetics in relation to the work of Martin Heidegger and his concept of dwelling. Our aim, broadly stated, is to respond to the question: "What frame of mind could bring about sustainability - and how might we develop it?" In the first part of the paper, we comment on Jonathan Bate's notion of ecopoetics and his discussion of Heidegger. Crucial here is the question of whether we can ever approach Nature in an non-ideological way or are all attempts to capture…Read more
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4Deconstructing Derrida: tasks for the new humanities (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2005.Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a "new" humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic theses as a springboard, the contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea of sovereignty, and history of man.
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27Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity: An EPAT collective writing projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 783-798. 2022.Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China;There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds– Gregory Bateson (1972, p. 492)While there are classical anteced...
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11From the ‘Yellow Peril’ to the ‘Asian Century’Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (9): 983-989. 2023.The History of the World travels from East to West for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the Beginning (Hegel, 1956, p. 103).In 1721 Christian Wolff gave a lecture on Confucius at Halle...
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6The geopolitical rebirth of the Anglosphere as a world actor after BrexitEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (11): 1193-1196. 2023.Over two billion people speak English making English the largest world language by number of speakers but only the third largest by number of native speakers of English. Anglophonia has a number of...
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35Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and PoliticsRowman & Littlefield. 2001.Visit our website for sample chapters!
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35Nietzsche's Legacy for Education: Past and Present Values (edited book)Praeger. 2001.This collection of essays provides an introduction to Nietzsche's thought and educational writings, and examines questions concerning the centrality of values for education in postmodernity.
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4Poststructuralism, Politics and EducationPraeger. 1996.Using a theoretical and historical investigation, this study presents a poststructuralist critique of subject-centred reason against the background of the modernity/postmodernity and "information society" debates.
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11Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrativeEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 662-667. 2022.
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33Philosophy of education in a new key: Voices from JapanEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1113-1129. 2022.
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19Philosophy of education in a new key: Cultivating a living philosophy of education to overcome coloniality and violence in African universitiesEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1099-1112. 2022.
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14In the domain of the imageEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (7): 677-682. 2021.In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.– Don DeLillo, (2016) Mao II, p.27, Pan Macmillan.Some three years ago we envisioned a project concerning the shift from text...
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25Philosophy of education in a new key: Reflection on higher education in IranEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1198-1215. 2022.This collective article discusses the philosophy of modern higher education in Iran, which in this case, optimistically, its history dates back to the founding of Dār al-fonūn —if we consider Dār al-fonūn as a university. Otherwise, its origin can be traced back to the University of Tehran. Central to this article is the emphasis on the lack of philosophy of higher education in Iran. Therefore, most of the criticisms in front of us are related to the internal inconsistency in the Iranian higher …Read more
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27The case for academic plagiarism education: A PESA Executive collective writing projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (9): 1307-1323. 2022.
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19The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A SymposiumEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1531-1549. 2022.
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148Towards a philosophy of academic publishingEducational Philosophy and Theory 48 (14): 1401-1425. 2016.This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of editors and reviewers of academic journals mostly in t…Read more
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21Video ethics in educational research involving children: Literature review and critical discussionEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (9): 863-880. 2021.Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase in the use of visual mediums in research especially with the development of new and ubiquitous internet technologies and social media. This paper emerged as an expressed concerned by a group of scholars associated with the new Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy that was established in 2016. The paper is the result of a collective writing process over a period of a few months that dis…Read more
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9James (J.C.) Walker: Philosopher of Education – The celebration of a lifeEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (1): 11-15. 2022.
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23Infanticides: The unspoken side of infantologiesEducational Philosophy and Theory 1-15. forthcoming.
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22Infantasies: An EPAT collective projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (14): 1442-1453. 2021.This is a collective writing project that is part of the larger design of Infantologies, Infanticides and Infantilizations; a quartet that explores the philosophy of infants from thematic perspectives, that puts infants at the centre of our reflections, and that encourages a different academic style of thinking.
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14Postdigital-biodigital: An emerging configurationEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (1): 1-14. 2023.This dialogue (trilogue) is an attempt to critically discuss the technoscientific convergence that is taking place with biodigital technologies in the postdigital condition. In this discussion, Sarah Hayes, Petar Jandrić and Michael A. Peters examine the nature of the convergences, their applications for bioeconomic sustainability and associated ecopedagogies. The dialogue paper raises issues of definition and places the technological convergence (‘nano-bio-info-cogno’) – of new systems biology …Read more
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13Biodigital technologies and the bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal?Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (3): 251-260. 2023.
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17Exploring the philosophy and practice of collective writingEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (7): 871-878. 2022.
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20The open peer review experiment in Educational Philosophy and Theory(EPAT)Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (2): 133-140. 2023.Open Peer Review: Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT)Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University, PR ChinaIn 2016 EPAT started experimenting with open peer review for articles that were part...
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16Theorising immaterial labor: Toward creativity, co(labor)ation and collective intelligenceEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (12): 1283-1294. 2021.Marx developed a sophisticated theory of labour under capitalism’s expanding reproduction but wrote little specifically on immaterial labour. This paper reflects on how to build from Marx’s writings a more comprehensive theory of immaterial labour. Integral to this theorisation is bringing in young Marx’s writings on alienation and human nature, and praxis read as the ‘point of knowledge is to change the world’. Integrating the young and mature work into a single perspective that highlights the …Read more