Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age : Essays on Designer Capitalism, Eco-Aestheticism, and Visual and Popular Culture As West-East Meet

This book problematizes the role of education in an increasingly mediatized world through the lenses of creativity, new media, and consumerism. At the core of the issue, the author argues, creativity in art education is being co-opted to serve the purposes of current economic trends towards designer capitalism. Using an East meets West approach, jagodzinski draws on Deleuze and Guattarian philosophy to explore visual and popular culture in Korean society, addressing the tensions that exist between designer education and art that explores the human condition. In doing so, he challenges art educators to envision a new paradigm for education which questions established media ontologies and incorporates new ways to confront the crisis of the Anthropocene. Acknowledgments 7 Contents 9 List of Figures 11 Chapter 1 Introduction: The Paradoxes and Worries in Contemporary Times 13 Big Other 20 The Neurological Frontier 26 The Return of Nature? The Anthropocene and NonLife 29 References 32 Part I When West-East Meet 37 Chapter 2 Inflexions of Deleuze|Guattari: For a New Ontology of Media, When West-East Meet 38 Against Representation 44 Exposing Benetton 46 The Performativity of the Image 49 Repetition with a Difference 53 Simulacra 56 Powers of the False 61 Becoming Imperceptible: Nomadic 64 Art as an Encounter 67 Event 68 References 70 Chapter 3 Korean Visual and Popular Culture: An Outsider’s View 74 Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Hybridity 75 Pan-Asian Visual and Popular Culture? 78 Educational Concerns 82 Post-confucianism/Feminism 83 Globalization/National Identity: The Film Industry 87 Hallyu/Cinema 90 Korean Film: Toward Deleuzian Inflexions 94 References 98 Chapter 4 Exploring Korean Visual and Popular Culture 104 Image Culture: The Korean Dilemma 104 Cyberworld: The Drive (Trieb), and the Need to Be Seen 107 PC Bangs and the Gaming Industry 111 The Place of Melodramas in the Korean Psyche 113 The Korean Music Scene: Transhybridity 118 Television ‘Real-Variety’ Shows 120 Save the Green Planet! Concluding Thoughts 122 References 125 Chapter 5 Kim Ki-duk’s Cinema of Imperceptibility: The Flaying of the Senses 129 Contextualization 129 Kim Ki-duk as Symptomologist of Korean Society 132 Cosmic Silence 136 Dream: The Topsy-Turvy of the Virtual|Actual 140 Impulse Image 144 Becoming Imperceptible 147 Abstract Machines: Creating a New BwO 157 Becoming-Other: the Gifts 159 Becoming-Animal: Becoming Dog 161 A Closing Ethic 164 Bibliography 168 Part II Aesthetics of Designer Capitalism 172 Chapter 6 Aesthetic Wars: Between the Creative Industries and Nomadology 173 Introduction 173 Creative Industries 175 Liquid Arts 176 The Digitalized Image: Machinic Vision 179 The Affective Turn 181 Aisthetics/Poeisis 182 Becoming 183 Passions, Dissensus and Transindividuation 185 References 188 Chapter 7 Art|Education: In the Service of Designer Capitalism 191 Introduction 191 Designer Capitalism’s Creative Industries 193 Art Education’s Response to the Creative Mandate 196 There Is Creativity and Then There Is Creativity 202 Where to Next? 203 What’s Missing? 205 References 206 Chapter 8 Reconsidering Visual Cultural Studies Interrogating Representation 210 The Binary of Difference and Sameness 212 Ruining Representation? 218 Checking a Wrong Turn 220 Formations of Fantasy 223 Body of the Senses 227 References 229 Chapter 9 Challenges for Art|Education: The Digitalized World of New Media 233 The Frameless Image 233 Synaesthetic Perception and Neuroaesthetics 235 Back to Digitalization 241 Liquid Art 246 Video Affect 248 Media Violence 250 Can One Conclude? 251 W(h)ither Pain? 252 References 252 Part III The End of the World: Posthuman Consequences 255 Chapter 10 Art|Education at the ‘End of the World’ 256 Nomadic Youth 257 From Toa to Zen and Back Again 264 Darker Sides 266 Attempts at Change 269 What Is to Be Done: Art Education at the End of the World 271 References 273 Chapter 11 Thinking ‘The End of Times’: The Significance of Bioart|BioArt for Art|Education 275 Introduction 275 Genesis 278 Consequences 283 Natalie Jeremijenko 287 Thinking the End of Time 289 Biophilosophy 291 References 293 Chapter 12 Between the Nonhuman and Inhuman: The Challenge of the Posthuman for Art|Education in the Twenty-First Century 296 The Visible Human Project (VHP) 303 Design Pedagogy 306 References 310 Index 313 Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction: The Paradoxes and Worries in Contemporary Times (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Inflexions of Deleuze|Guattari: For a New Ontology of Media, When West-East Meet (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 27-62 Korean Visual and Popular Culture: An Outsider’s View (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 63-92 Exploring Korean Visual and Popular Culture (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 93-117 Kim Ki-duk’s Cinema of Imperceptibility: The Flaying of the Senses (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 119-161 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Aesthetic Wars: Between the Creative Industries and Nomadology (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 165-182 Art|Education: In the Service of Designer Capitalism (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 183-201 Reconsidering Visual Cultural Studies Interrogating Representation (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 203-225 Challenges for Art|Education: The Digitalized World of New Media (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 227-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 Art|Education at the ‘End of the World’ (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 251-269 Thinking ‘The End of Times’: The Significance of Bioart|BioArt for Art|Education (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 271-291 Between the Nonhuman and Inhuman: The Challenge of the Posthuman for Art|Education in the Twenty-First Century (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 293-309 Back Matter ....Pages 311-327