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45Creativity, group pedagogy and social action: A departure from GoughEducational Philosophy and Theory 40 (2). 2008.The following paper continues discussions within this journal about how the work of Delueze and Guattari can inform radical pedagogy. Building primarily on Noel Gough's 2004 paper, we take up the challenge to move towards a more creative form of 'becoming cyborg' in our teaching. In contrast to work that has focused on Deleuzian theories of the rhizome, we deploy Guattari's work on institutional schizoanalysis to explore the role of group creativity in radical pedagogy. The institutional therapi…Read more
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On not mistaking Deleuze (With the help of some Buddhists)In Tony See (ed.), Deleuze and Buddhism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2016.
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24Producing the NAPLAN Machine: A Schizoanalytic CartographyDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 9 (3): 410-423. 2015.
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19The Logics of Good Teaching in an Audit Culture: A Deleuzian analysisEducational Philosophy and Theory 45 (3): 243-258. 2013.This article examines the attempted reform of education within an emerging audit culture in Australia that has led to the implementation of a high-stakes testing regime known as NAPLAN. NAPLAN represents a machine of auditing, which creates and accounts for data that are used to measure, amongst other things, good teaching. In particular, we address the logics of a policy intervention that aims to improve the quality of education through returning ‘good teaching’. Using Deleuze’s concepts of ser…Read more
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215Mapping Teacher-FacesStudies in Philosophy and Education 32 (4): 379-395. 2012.This paper uses Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of faciality to analyse the teacher’s face. According to Deleuze and Guattari, the teacher-face is a special type of face because it is an ’overcoded’ face produced in specific landscapes. This paper suggests four limit-faces for teacher faciality that actualise different mixes of signifiance and subjectification in a classroom in which individualisation and massifications are affected. Understanding these limit-faces suggests new ways to conceive t…Read more
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20The Eternal Return of Teaching in the Time of the CorporationDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 8 (2): 280-298. 2014.This article addresses the new conditions under which teachers are making the choice to teach. Our core contention is that the reorganisation of schools according to the logic of the corporation, as described in Deleuze's ‘Postscript’, is changing the flows and forces on the primary surface of ‘the classroom’. These changes block the usual movements of teaching to discipline, normalise and individualise, which was the role of the school as precursor to the factory. Blocked from repeating, or ret…Read more
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5Reading Mill: studies in political theorySt. Martin's Press. 1998.This book studies the work of John Stuart Mill in order to answer the question: what is political theory? Looking at what political theorists have written about this subject leads to the conclusion that they have different ways of defining political theory, resulting in different readings of political theory. In defense of this argument, Reading Mill includes three different readings of the works of John Stuart Mill and identifies a fourth type of political theorist unlikely to read Mill. When i…Read more
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17Theorising Schmitt’s Friend-Enemy through Deleuzian Folding and First-Person ShootersSymploke 17 (1-2): 215-230. 2009.
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13The works of Michel Foucault have not, so far, been employed so as to enable an adequate understanding of the functioning of the law. This article begins to remedy this situation. Past uses of Foucault's work have failed to provide a satisfactory account of the relationship between the juridical and the disciplinary aspects of "the law" in general. The application of his ideas to the practice of the common law offers a way forward. In this article, we use Foucault's ideas of discursive formation…Read more
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85Spinning in the NAPLAN Ether: 'Postscript on the Control Societies' and the Seduction of Education in AustraliaDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 6 (4): 564-584. 2012.This paper applies concepts Deleuze developed in his ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’, especially those relating to modulatory power, dividuation and control, to aspects of Australian schooling to explore how this transition is manifesting itself. Two modulatory machines of assessment, NAPLAN and My Schools, are examined as a means to better understand how the disciplinary institution is changing as a result of modulation. This transition from discipline to modulation is visible in the d…Read more