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23Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2: Technology, Neurology, QuantumSpringer Nature Switzerland. 2024.As a follow up to Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume I, this book addresses three major areas in response to the post-Anthropocene: Technology, Neurology, Quantum. Each of these areas is broadly addressed in relation to the concerns that have arisen both theoretically and educationally. As in Volume I, the author terms these to be encounters as each area presents a particular problematic when addressing the phase change that the planet is undergoing where the anthropogenic l…Read more
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8Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 1: Childhood, Environment, IndigeneitySpringer Nature Switzerland. 2024.This volume, the first of a two volume set, addresses three major areas in response to the post-Anthropocene: childhood, environment and indigeneity. Each of these areas is broadly addressed in relation to the concerns that have arisen both theoretically and educationally. The author terms these to be encounters as each area presents a particular problematic when addressing the phase change that the planet is undergoing where the anthropogenic labour of global humanity is contributing to climate…Read more
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2VirtualityIn Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 993-997. 2023.What can the arts ‘do’ in the Anthropocene? The shift toward immanence, materiality, sensation and performance by what appears to be a new Kunstwollen, directly addresses such a question. I develop the notion of the cosmic-eco-artisan, influenced by the work of Deleuze and Guattari to further address such a question.
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14Thinking Bateson with Deleuze and Guattari: Response-ability of Artisans-Artists-Designers in the AnthropoceneDeleuze and Guattari Studies 17 (3): 387-423. 2023.In this essay I bring Gregory Bateson together with Deleuze and Guattari (primarily with the latter) to show their ecological compatibility, especially with Guattari’s ecosophy. I do this against the backdrop of the Anthropocene which presents us not only with a ‘climate’ of post-truth and political corruption, but also with the so-called climate crisis. In the context of these two broad examinations, I ask what can an artisan-artist-designer do given this problematic context? My reply is to cal…Read more
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7Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, ‘Art Cannot be Taught—it can However Educate!’In Kent Den Heyer (ed.), Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: The Subject of Art Badiou's Five Problems Badiou's Inaesthetic Badiou Exposed Why Art Can't Be Taught—It Can However Educate! Notes References.
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Curriculum as Felt Through Six Layers of an Aesthetically Embodied Skin : The Arch-Writing on the BodyIn William F. Pinar & William M. Reynolds (eds.), Understanding curriculum as phenomenological and deconstructed text, Educators International Press. 2016.
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An avant-garde "without authority" : the posthuman cosmic artisan in the AnthropoceneIn Paulo de Assis & Paolo Giudici (eds.), Aberrant nuptials: Deleuze and artistic research 2, Leuven University Press. 2019.
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7Introduction: Interrogating the AnthropoceneIn Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-71. 2018.One hopes that this is another ‘untimely’ book that adds to the many voices of artists, poets, academics, politicians, and leaders around the world who have embraced the necessity of addressing the precarity of the Earth and the crisis of our species in what it has been arguably termed the AnthropoceneAnthropocene; its euphemism, ‘climate changeClimate change’ is certainly the more common term, but no better understood.
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35Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bioacoustics, documentary film, installation art, geop…Read more
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234After postmodernism in educational theory?Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (14): 1642-1643. 2018.The Academy seems to operate with a swarm consciousness; suddenly we find ourselves on a new landscape laden with new percepts and affects to be deciphered as signs, as Deleuze and Guattari might a...
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48Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, ‘art cannot be taught—it can however educate!’Educational Philosophy and Theory 42 (2): 177-195. 2010.This essay explores Badiou's writings on art and inaesthetics. It reviews his notion of the artistic event, comments on his 15 theses on contemporary art and examines his notion of inaesthetics. What follows is then applied to art and its education in terms of his search for a ‘third position’ that would challenge the extremes of capitalist design innovation and Romantic idealism that in his summation define the contemporary landscape.
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18The ethics of the “real” in Levinas, Lagan, and buddhism: Pedagogical implicationsEducational Theory 52 (1): 81-96. 2002.
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8Is There an Ethics of Diabolical Evil? Sex Scandals, Family Romance, and Love in the School & AcademyStudies in Philosophy and Education 25 (5-6): 335-362. 2006.This essay attempts to examine the difficult question of sex scandals both in public school settings and in the academy. It raises issues over the way authority in the classroom is unequally exercised by both male and female teachers in terms of power and seduction. However, the Law remains explicit when it comes to judging who is at fault within a-student relationship that collapses into the bedroom. The ethics that surround such sexual affairs is raised through the psychoanalytic and philosoph…Read more
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12Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism: deconstructing the oral eyePalgrave-Macmillan. 2010.The oral eye is a metaphor for the dominance of global designer capitalism. It refers to the consumerism of a designer aesthetic by the 'I' of the neoliberalist subject, as well as the aural soundscapes that accompany the hegemony of the capturing attention through screen cultures. An attempt is made to articulate the historical emergence of such a synoptic machinic regime drawing on Badiou, Bellmer, Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, Rancir̈e, Virilio, Ziarek, and Zizek to explore contemporary art (post…Read more
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5Pedagogical desire: authority, seduction, transference, and the question of ethics (edited book)Bergin & Garvey. 2002.The interest in the relationship between pedagogy of the classroom informed by psychoanalytic discourse has grown in recent years to the point where there is a critical mass of educators who are utilizing neo-Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic theory in their educational research.
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50Saints, Jesters and Nomads: The Anomalous Pedagogies of Lacan, Žižek, … Deleuze and GuattariDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 9 (3): 356-381. 2015.In this essay I bring together Lacan, Žižek, Deleuze and Guattari as mediators and intercessors for one another. The tensions that exist between them still continue to reverberate throughout the academic community. The intent is to query their pedagogies in what they are trying to ‘do’ within the context of capitalism in particular. I have called their pedagogies anomalous in keeping with their thrust of becoming other in their own particular ways through what I take to be three pedagogical conc…Read more
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39A Response to: "Deconstructing Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus for Music Education"Journal of Aesthetic Education 50 (3): 101-121. 2016.One would have to be too “simple” to believe that thought is a simple act, clear unto itself, and not putting into play all the powers of the unconscious, or all the powers of nonsense in the unconscious.1As someone who has taken out the time to study Deleuze|Guattari’s oeuvre,2 rather than targeting just one book, A Thousand Plateaus in such a superficial way, reading Estelle Jorgensen and Iris M. Yob’s “deconstruction” of this particular work has been a very painful experience, “painful” in th…Read more
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Struggling with Žižek's Ideology: The Deleuzian Complaint, Or, Why is Žižek a Disguised Deleuzian in Denial?'International Journal of Žižek Studies 4 (1): 1-18. 2010.In this paper I explore Žižek’s stance on ideology. I begin with an overview, move to his understanding of the ‘act’ and then move into the second part of the paper which is a discussion of the first part in relation to his encounter with Deleuze in Organs Without Body. I claim that this was a missed encounter, or rather it will always remain an impossible encounter given that Lacan, Badiou and Žižek’s philosophical embrace of negativity bumps up squarely against Deleuze and Guattari’s affirmati…Read more
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