Jessie L. Beier & jan jagodzinski 
Ahuman Pedagogy [PDF ebook] 
Multidisciplinary Perspectives for Education in the Anthropocene

This book brings together a collection of multi-disciplinary voices to discuss, debate, and devise a series of ahuman pedagogical proposals that aim to address the challenging ecological, political, social, economic, and aesthetic milieu within which education is situated today. Attending to contemporary calls to decenter all-too-human educational research and practice, while also coming to terms with the limits and inheritances through which such calls are made possible in the first place, this book aims to interrogate, but also invent, what we are calling an ahuman pedagogy. Organized in three main sections — Conjuring an Ahuman Pedagogy, Machinic Re/distributions, and Non-pedagogies for Unthought Futures — this multi-disciplinary experiment in ahuman pedagogies for the age of the Anthropocene offers an experimental – albeit always speculative and incomplete – series of pedagogical proposals that work to unthink and counter-actualize educational futures-as-usual.

 

Table of Content

1. Introduction (Jessie L. Beier and jan jagodzinski).- 2. Ahuman Occult Pedagogy in Practice (Patricia Mac Cormack).- 3. The Literacy Situation: Education and the Dispersal of Politics (Nathan Snaza).- 4. Educational (Im)possibilities During the Necrocene: Ontological (In)securities and an Ahumanist Existentialism? (Cathryn van Kessel).- 5. Towards an Unsettling Hauntology of Science Education (Marc Higgins).- 6. Mapping Entanglement: Mobilizing the Uncanniness of Machine-Vision (Delphi Carstens).- 7. Transversing Digi-Spaces and Newcomer Youth Encounters: Considering a Minoritarian Politics Online (Adriana Boffa).- 8. Practicing the Future Together: Power, Safety and Urgency in the Distributed Model (Christina Battle).- 9. “Against” Education: A Roundtable on Anarchy and Abolition (Andrew Culp in conversation with Jessie L. Beier, Vicky Osterweil and Jose Rosales).- 10. Terminal Protagonism: Negation and Education in the Anthropocene (Jason J. Wallin and Petra Mikulan).- 11. The Cosmoecoartisan: Ahuman Becomings in the Anthropocene (jan jagodzinksi).- 12. Ahuman Manifestations: When There Is No Outside (or, a Long, Good Sigh) (Jessie L. Beier). 

About the author

Jessie L. Beier is a teacher, artist, writer, and conjurer of weird pedagogies for unthought futures.
jan jagodzinski is Professor of Visual Art and Media Education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.