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Education, the Anthropocene, and Deleuze/Guattari: Researching Environmental Learning, cartea 5

Autor David R. Cole
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2021
Human civilisation stands at an unimaginable precipice. The human past, leading up to today, has seen society develop under the conditions of the Holocene since 10000 BC. However – we are now in the Anthropocene, what Deleuze/Guattari term as the future rupturing the present. This book analyses the Anthropocene given four dimensions: ‘tool-enhancement’; ‘carbon trail’; ‘the phallocene’; and ‘atomic-time’. A mode of education and social change lies parallel to this mapping that tackles degrowth, changing consciousness, a Green Utopia, and building a critical-immanent model to realign current practices in the light of globalisation. This is the first book to put the philosophy of Deleuze/Guattari to work for the future, and our collective existence as a differentiated educational practice in the Anthropocene.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004505957
ISBN-10: 9004505954
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Researching Environmental Learning


Cuprins

Foreword
Will Steffen
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables

1 Overview: The Problem of the Future
1 Introduction
2 What Is the Position of the Future?
3 Why ‘Deleuze/Guattari’? – An Analysis
4 Education, Social Change, and the Future
5 The Future of the Anthropocene

2 Tool-Enhancement
1 Introduction
2 Prehistory
3 The Beginnings of Civilisation: Agriculture
4 Metallurgy
5 Global Trade
6 World Machine

3 Carbon Trail
1 Introduction
2 The Discovery of Fire
3 Fire, Light, and Society
4 The ‘Energy-Life’ Threshold
5 Furnaces, Mining, and Individual Energy Exchange
6 Steam Engines
7 Fossil Fuel Capitalism

4 The Phallocene
1 Introduction
2 The Phallic God-Heads
3 One Phallus-God
4 Establishment of Phallus-Worship
5 The Working Phallic-Week
6 Digital Phallic-Endeavour

5 Atomic-Time
1 Introduction
2 A Universe of Atoms
3 Atomic Theory
4 Electricity
5 Quantum Mechanics
6 The Atomic Bomb

6 Teaching and Learning Differently in the Anthropocene
1 Introduction
2 Attending to the ‘Forces of Control’ at the Local Level
3 A Global Thinking Matrix
4 What Is Pedagogy of/in the Anthropocene?

7 Incremental Movements towards a New Society
1 Introduction
2 The Great Leap Forward – A Green Utopia?
3 Changing Society at the Micro-Level
4 How Can the Minor Societal Changes Be Augmented?

8 Conclusion: The Double Bind
1 Introduction
2 What Is the Double Bind?
3 The Double Bind of the Future
4 The Role of Politics in the Double Bind
5 Realism and ‘Fabulation’…
6 This Is the End of the ‘End-Times’

References
Index

Notă biografică

David R. Cole, Ph.D. (2003), University of Warwick, UK, is Associate Professor of Education at Western Sydney University. He has published 15 books in the field, and more than 100 other significant articles and book chapters. His latest book is Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education (with Joff P. N. Bradley, Springer, 2018). He has instigated an interdisciplinary research web site for the Anthropocene (https://iiraorg.com).

Recenzii

“Anyone still in doubt about the political and ethical significance of environmental education needs to read David R. Cole’s exceptional Education, the Anthropocene, and Deleuze/Guattari. Cole demonstrates with perfect clarity and keen detail how a radical rethinking about the environment rests with also rethinking educational praxis by understanding unconscious drives and desires that perpetuate the Anthropocene and which complicate traditional educational efforts. This is a remarkable and incisive book, that captures the contemporary moment eloquently, and also provides readers with an outstanding website full of contributions and resources from interdisciplinary researchers engaged in rethinking the Anthropocentric moment.” – P. Taylor Webb, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia

“David R. Cole’s new book provides a critical reading of education, through the matrix of Deleuze/Guattari theory, examining the problem of the future and how we might escape the Anthropocene, to find what Guattari called ‘the joy of living’. An optimistic and positive view based on the idea that we can change.” – Michael A. Peters, Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

“While collective human-more-than-human earthly entities are paused in a temporal limbo of precarity; education needs room to breathe. The speculative and gestural possibilities for living within a new mode of humanity depend on it. The planet deserves it. This book by David R. Cole finds new spaces, a place to inhale, as he invites a host of others onto a stage we humans thought we occupied alone.” – Karen Malone, Professor of Education, Director of Research, Swinburne University, Melbourne

“Cole’s original and unique book directly speaks to those educators seeking to escape the nightmare of the Anthropocene. It offers an incisive, Deleuze-Guattarian analysis of dominant, yet barely acknowledged drivers of the Anthropocene, and follows these through to stimulating expositions of new ways of learning, teaching and doing pedagogy. In doing so, it offers alternative understandings of how we could practice education that can provide escape routes from the Anthropocene that are not about escapism. It does this in a no-nonsense, hard-hitting style that is entirely appropriate to the urgency of the overwhelming planetary crisis. The book is thus also a demonstration of how to produce original and significant knowledge in ways that can help rejuvenate and re-imagine transformative practices for education. It is a must-read for anyone interested in combining contemporary theory, research and educational practice in ways that can usher in utopian futures.” – Esther Priyadharshini, Associate Professor in Education, University of East Anglia, UK

“A brilliant and incredibly timely book. Cole not only provides an original analysis of the trends that have led to our contemporary crises, but more importantly, he shows how Deleuze and Guattari’s work can provide a model for ‘thinking and learning differently’ in the Anthropocene.” – Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA

“In this erudite and carefully crafted conceptual book, with many entry and exit points, David R. Cole challenges the reader to think how education and educational practice can enact a feasible way out from the effects of end-of-world narratives and provide an escape from the entrapment of the Anthropocene.” – Juan Francisco Salazar Sutil, Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

“Congratulations to David R. Cole for producing a much needed and timely contribution in response to a key question of our time: What does it mean to be learning in the Anthropocene? While reading this book, I was reminded of an assertion by Albert Einstein in a letter, dated 21 March 1955, written four weeks before his death, that 'the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion.' The past is still with us and the future is within us, but we live in the now. We cannot undo the past through linear extrapolation from what went wrong to an idealized future that will save us from perishing in the sixth mass extinction. What we can and must do – and keep doing – is, according to Cole, 'to try and figure out the patterns, tendencies, rhythms, repetitions, forces, and drives that have ... gone to make up the present.' Non-linear analysis of the drives that throughout human history have brought us the Anthropocene allows us to continually reinvent the now as an expanded time dimension and elucidate practices and opportunities for learning in the Anthropocene. One seldom comes across a book that, right from the beginning, is at the same time intoxicating to read but also impossible to put down as soon as one has started reading. With every page one reads and – if not immediately grasped, rereads – one becomes more and more convinced that there is a treasure hidden within, but that it takes hard work to dig it up.” – Jan Visser, President & Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute, Professor Extraordinary, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa