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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 labour of global humanity is contributing to climate change, endangering our very existence. Technology in education has been a significant development. There is a concerted effort to review this development placing stress on the rise of learning machines and algorithms. In the second encounter the vast literature on neurology is addressed, especially neurodiversity and the various symptoms that have emerged in the post-Anthropocene era. The last section reviews issues related to quantum theory as this is fundamental to tensions between physics and metaphysics. The volume concludes with the author's own pedagogical proposal for the future.
List of contents
1. By Way of Introduction.- Part I Technogenetic Assemblages of Education.- 2. Synthetic Politics: Responding to Algorithms of Education.- 3. To the Objects Themselves.- 4. Intensifying Postphenomenology: Through Algorithms of the Twenty-First Century.- 5. A Cosmotechnology for the Post-Anthropocene?.- 6. Racialized Negative Machines.- 7. Education in the Neganthropocene: A Pharmacological Search.- 8. The Neganthropocene Revisited: Entropy, World, Earth.- Part II Neurology, Epigenesis, Quantum Mind, and Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene.- 9. Neuroscience with New Materialism.- 10. Quantum Mind: Part 1.- 11. Quantum Mind: Part 2.- 12. Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene.- Part III The In|difference of Anorganic Life (An Apparition of Education).- 13. The State of Play.- 14. In|difference.
About the author
jan jagodzinski is Emeritus Professor of Art and Media Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada. His is the author of twenty book titles and the series editor for
Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures.
