Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures (Postdigital Science and Education)

This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals, objects, stuff, and other forms of matter. Contemporary postdigital ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational reconfigurations in areas including capitalism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, and ontological hierarchies more generally. Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call for experimentation to link pedagogical research and practice to challenges of our moment. They pose living, breathing, expanding, contracting, fluid, and spatial conditions and questions of our non-chronological present. This book presents analyses of that present from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to education studies, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, and architecture. Series Editor’s Preface References Foreword: The Time Has Come but Has it Gone References Introduction: The Many Faces of Postdigital Ecopedagogies Times of Ruptures, Times of Continuations What’s in the Book? Part 1: The Educational and Intellectual Coordinates of Postdigital Ecopedagogies Part 2: Postdigital Ecopedagogies in Global Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Struggles Part 3: The Aesthetics of Postdigital Ecopedagogies The Many Faces of Postdigital Ecopedagogies References Acknowledgement Contents About the Editors About the Authors Part I: The Educational and Intellectual Coordinates of Postdigital Ecopedagogies Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures We Need New Utopias The Ecopedagogy Movement Critical Philosophy of Technology and Studies of Science and Technology (STS) Big Data, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligences, and New Capitalisms Bioinformational Capitalism and Viral Modernity Anti-imperialist, Anti-colonial, and Decolonization Studies/Movements Postdigital Feminisms Intersectionality and Identity Politics as Ecologies of Collective Resistance (Critical) Posthumanism and Transhumanism Critical Disability Studies Queer Theories Postdigital Aesthetics (Science) Fiction and Future Studies Myth, Religion, and Belief Towards New Postdigital Ecopedagogies References Postdigital Ecopedagogies of Attainment and Progress Introduction The Idea of Progress as Wider Than McProgress Chronological Progress That Leads to A Better Future? Educational Assumptions of Progress in McPolicy and The Scala Naturae Debates and Underpinning Assumptions Temporal Assumptions and Postdigital Convergences Environmental Assumptions and Success as Progress Technological Assumptions and Failure in A Neoliberal Context Assumptions About Educationalization and ‘Harnessing’ Technology and Data Postdigital Stalking of Policy Commitments to Identify Progress Disrupting the Very Grammar of Justice From A Neoliberal Model of Progress Towards Bioeconomical Progress From Political Economic Discourse in Education to A Political Bioeconomic Discourse References From the Knowable and Transparent Individual to the Secret Thought of Individuation: An Anti-Capitalist Postdigital Ecopedagogy Introduction The Postdigital Landscape of Contemporary Ecopedagogy Capitalist Postdigital Ecopedagogy The Terror of Transparency Postdigital Ecopedagogy Against Capital: From the Transparent Individual to Thought of Individuation Disorienting Individuality and Knowledge Conclusion References Composting The Anti-Human University Introduction: The Living Death of Capitalism How Shall We Live? A Pedagogical Imperative Capitalist Higher Education and Webs of Living Death The University and Capitalism’s Social Metabolic Control Ecological Distress and The Toxic Morbidity of The University Knowing The World Otherwise Composting The Anti-Human University References Insurrectional and Pandoran Democracy, Military Perversion and The Quest for Environmental Peace: The Last Frontiers of Ecopedagogy Before Us Introduction The Fragile Democratic Foundation Holding Us Up/Down Contextualizing Democracy Within the Postdigital Context Some of the Military Environmental Destruction Cultivating the Eco in (the) Pedagogy, and Democratizing the Environment Conclusion References Part II: Postdigital Ecopedagogies in Global Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Struggles Biopolitics, Postdigital Temporality and the New Chronic: Pedagogical Praxis Within, Against, and Beyond the Meantime Introduction: An Emerging Matrix of Power and New Logic of Temporality The Biopolitical The Question of Life State of Exception The Biological Turn in the War on Terror: The Case of Project BioShield Cascading States of Exception, and their Nefarious Technologies There is No Alternative: The Meantime and the Epistemological Closure of Alternatives Decolonizing Dominant and Imperialist Narratives: Breaking the Binds of the Meantime Genealogical Analysis Beyond the Meantime The Subjective Figures of the New Chronic Mode and the Temporal Formation of the Meantime Pedagogical Praxis Within, Against, and Beyond the Meantime References Ecopedagogy Disrupting Postdigital Divides of (Neo)Coloniality, (Eco)Racism, and Anthropocentricism: A Case Study Introduction Ecopedagogical Postdigitalism: Grounding development and Planetary Sustainability Ecopedagogy, Freire, and Technologies Critical Issues and Theories to Weave: A Non-Exhaustive List Globalization as Neocoloniality Divides Neoliberal Divides Imaginaries, Anthropocentricism, and Othering Divides Case Study: Postdigital, Ecopedagogical Project-Based Course Course and Design Setup Philosophical Frameworks Used in Our Learning Systems Thinking Vulnerability Positive Deviance: Utilizing TikTok for a Mass Literacy Campaign Failure to Get to Eco-Racism and Indigenous/Southern Wisdom Critical Race Theory and Counter-Storytelling of Nature Concluding: Outside Digital Spaces Essential References Pan-African Socialism and Postdigital Considerations A Postdigital Ecopedagogy Pan-Africanism Kwame Nkrumah Neocolonialism Amilcar Cabral Cabral’s Dialectics De-Africanization and Anti-colonial Resistance Anti-colonialism and Decoloniality Freire and Decolonial Education in a Liberated Guinea-Bissau Cabral’s Ongoing Relevance Conclusion References The Postdigital Settler Spectacle: An Educators’ Dérive to Unveil a ‘New Colonizer’ During Covid-19 Introduction Definition of Terms Use of Accessible Language Defining For Ourselves The ‘Postdigital’ Desiring the Colonizer’s ‘Deeper Vision’ Whose Ethic? Transhumanism, Humanity, and Prioritized Relationships Shifting our Gaze: Welcome to the Postdigital Settler Spectacle Autoethnography and the Theory of the Dérive Use of Indigenous and Allied Autoethnographies Use of the Theory of the Dérive Mo’s Autoethnography: ‘Allied’ Perspective on Reality, Ritual, and Support Hugh’s Autoethnography: An Indigenous Perspective on Family, Work, and Culture In Observation of the Movement of The Spectacle Fragment 1: Settler City Spaces Fragment 2: Settler Technology Spaces Fragment 3: In-Between Decolonized Spaces Conclusion: What Does Experience on the Land Reveal about the Settler Spectacle? Acts of Identifying, Disrupting, and Resisting the Postdigital Settler Spectacle By Whose Ethic are We Being Led? Special Authors’ Note: A Dérive Beyond Settler Borders References A Modest Proposal for A Pedagogy of Alienation Introduction Part One: Unpacking our Narratives What Constitutes a Class? Presence As a Proxy for Engagement How Do We Create Connection? Depoliticization and Bicultural Competence On Affect Uncertain Contexts for Resistance and Refusal Part Two: A Messianic Dystopian Vision for a Pedagogy of Alienation On Anger, Rage, and ‘The Impossibility of Reconciliation’ Solidarities For the Multitude(s) Scyborg Wanderings: Undoing the Promise of Happiness Conclusion References Part III: The Aesthetics of Postdigital Ecopedagogies Towards Second-Wave Architectural Ecopedagogies The Responsibility of Architectural Education Architecture And the Non-Human Environment The Postdigital in Architecture Three Architectural Ecopedagogies Arcosanti (1970–) Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1975–81) The Centre for Alternative Technology (1973–) Towards Second-Wave Architectural Ecopedagogies Coda References Postdigital Intercreative Pedagogies: Ecopedagogical Practices for the Commons Introduction Sustainable Production of Knowledge Creativity at Crossroads: Homo Collaborans and Homo Economicus Postdigital Ecopedagogy Intercreativity as a Pedagogical Process Ecopedagogical Praxis for the Commons Free Culture from Education Quadraginta: Collective Audio-Visual Reflection in the Time of Covid-19 Conclusion References Ripple Effects: New Frameworks for Learning in Postcommodity’s Sound Art Introduction Restless Spirits Healing the Tower Between Two Worlds New Frameworks References Malfunctioning Right in Our Backyards OR The Strangeness of Ecological Awareness Introduction Our Alchemy Symbols Malfunctionings and Gaps Media(tions), Infrastructure, and Environmentality Susceptibility: Into Our Backyards Farewell! And Now the Haunting... Conclusion: Toward Malfunctioning and Pleasure References Afterword: Towards an Ecopedagogy of Revolutionary Optimism in The Age of Climate Crisis References Index