Deleuze & Guattari, Politics and Education: For a People-Yet-to-Come

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Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education mobilizes Deleuzian-Guattarian philosophy as a revolutionary alternative to the lingering forms of transcendence, identity politics, and nihilism endemic to Western thought. Operationalizing Deleuze and Guattari's challenge to contemporary philosophy, this book presents their view as a revolutionary alternative to the lingering forms of transcendence, identity politics, and nihilism endemic to the current state of Western formal education. This book offers an experimental approach to theorizing, creating an entirely new way for educational theorists to approach their work as the task of revolutionizing life itself. Examining new conceptual resources for grappling with and mapping a sustainable political alternative to the cliche's that saturate contemporary educational theory, this collection of essays works toward extracting a genuine image of education and learning that exists in sharp contrast to both the neo-liberal educational project and the critical pedagogical tradition. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Foreword: A Pedagogy of the Concept Preface 1 Schizoanalysis and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed References 2 On Cinema as Micropolitical Pedagogy: Is there an Elephant in the Classroom? The problematic Outside Grasping difficultly Pedagogical worries Spiritual automaton Eisenstein, Artaud, Godard Powers of the false Post-cinematic concerns Elephants References 3 Deleuze, Guattari, and Environmental Pedagogy and Politics Introduction: A people-yet-to-come and becoming now-here Geophilosophy: A people-yet-to-come and a planet-yet-to-come ‘Thinking differently’: The pedagogy and politics of learning Habits and habitats: ‘I’ as a habit and ‘me’ as ‘milieu’ ‘Facing the outside’ and creating sustainable connections Nomadic subjectivity: ‘We’ are wanderings Nomadism as voyaging in place: Sustaining intensities, connectivities and communities Conclusion: The people-yet-to-come, the planet-yet-to-come, pedagogy and politics References 4 Inter-collapse … Educational Nomadology for a Future Generation Introduction Decision-making in education (duality) Nomads in capital space The pros and cons of nomadology The good, the bad and the nomad-ugly Educational policy (power) and nomads Conclusions References 5 Diagramming the Classroom as a Topological Assemblage Introduction The politics of educational diagrams The topological turn Directions for further research References 6 Education Needs to Get a Grip on Life The Molar Institution: Schools are not made for children: Children ought to be made for schools The people are missing in education The teachers are missing Death-State The molecular institution: Supple lines Rock n’ roll curriculum Against drowning Resingularizing institutional life Nomads in the institution Thinking through the institution: Lines of flight Four truths References 7 Financial ‘Innovation’, Financialized Education and Deleuzean Modulation: FinLit and the ‘Breeding’ of Indebted Subjects and Subjectivities Introduction: FinLit’s friends Agnotological education: Manufacturing false financial options Deleuze and ‘the whole perverse apparatus of repression and education Flows of capital and ‘infinite debt’ Conclusion References 8 Amputating the State: Autonomy and La Universidad de la Tierra Unitierra: Not a school Autonomy and el Estado The pedagogue of objects and the gas generator at Unitierra References 9 Chaosmic Spasm and the Educational Chaoide The age of neo-liberal darkness Spasm Desire and the organic body Chaosmosis and chaoide What is the agent of the neuroplastic re-syntonization that Guattari names chaosmosis? Autonomy and education Note on the creation of the European School for Social Imagination (SCEPSI) References Index