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Aesthetics of education
This text examines the aesthetic event of education. Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances.
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The Pedagogical Power of Things: Toward a Post-Intentional Phenomenology of Unlearning
This article attempts to understand how things can act as nonhuman teachers with the ability to suspend the worldly dimension of perception. Expressions of such pedagogical power can be seen in certain forms of visual art and, in particular, in the convention of the contour line. Rather than a reflection of human cultural norms or an accident of human perception, the contour can be seen as ontological research into the vicarious causality between things. In conclusion, Lewis proposes a new kind of art education that is sensitive to the ways in which things teach us to unlearn human-centered perceptual styles.
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The Antifascist Politics of Absolutely Inoperative Gestures: From Adorno To Agamben To the Marx Brothers
This essay turns to Giorgio Agamben and Theodor Adorno to understand the antifascist politics of gestural loss. Adorno offers a historical materialist framework for grounding this loss in the rise and fall of the bourgeoisie while Agamben offers a political response to this crisis of the gesture. This essay focuses on one gesture in particular—tact— in order to illustrate a series of dialectical turns that lead from tactful tact to tactless tact to tactful tactlessness. While these versions all lead to dead ends—culminating in either the reification of the culture industry or the domination of the fascist agitator—Agamben offers a paradoxical alternative: tactless tactlessness as the absolute inoperativity of tact. This final gesture is exemplified in visual comedy and in particular the Marx Brothers' work, which demonstrates its potentially antifascist possibilities.
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Temporality, Pleasure, and the Angelic in Teaching: Toward a Pictorial-Ontological Turn in Education
In this article, we explore a new way of philosophizing and theorizing about education with the help of a detailed description and analysis of works of art. More precisely, we turn to three portrayals or figures of angels (as depicted by Albrecht Dürer, Paul Klee, and William Hogarth) in order to figure something out about what it means to be a teacher. As such, our work is in line with two recent developments, the pictorial and the ontological turn in education. At the same time, we add new insights to these approaches. The angels we discuss are also \"bad\" or fallen angels-and, in that sense, the dimensions of teaching we bring to the fore are characteristic of a teacher whose doings are not at all in line with current discourses on good education. This is particularly because we focus on the teacher's doings rather than starting from her relationship with students. Combining our pictorial analyses with key concepts taken form the work of Georgio Agamben (namely, nonrelational relationality, suspension, and potentiality), we portray the teacher as maintaining a particular relation toward time (interruption of teleological conception of time) and of enjoying herself in different ways (passion, affirmation).
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Cities Gone Wild
[...]there is an absence of human signs of life, but living in the rubble and the ruins of a crumbling city are a host of animals, including a massive grizzly bear. The world has been repopulated by a variety of living things, big and small, that now inhabit the spaces and places once built to accommodate human-oriented actions and purposes. [...]mass disappearance of humans creates the condition for a mass migration of animals into otherwise restricted zones, producing zoomorphic heterotopias in a post-Anthropocene world. [...]zoomorphic geographic experimentation could quickly speedball into the non-human animal equivalent of Occupy Wall Street. Again, one should not hear the absence of cars as a mere deficit or index of a lack, but rather as an opportunity for posthuman, zoomorphic rhythm analysis. [...]they are creatively proposing a new composition of simultaneous actions (for instance, foraging and shopping, trash collecting and scavenging, pipelaying and burrow digging).
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Sacred Night of Study
Lewis provide a crypto-genealogy of studying. The studier is a persistent and silent figure in Western thought, hidden under a veil of night. In the book Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark (2019), Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh explores the dark paradoxes of night, tracing various spaces, times, and actions in the shadows, sleep, nightmares, and visionary dreams. Mohaghegh lists various questionable agents that occupy the night, including the werewolf, dreamer, redeemer, enemy, sailor, exiled, idol, messenger, extortionist, ghost,stalker, virus, vagrant, fighter, criminal, and creature. However, Mohaghegh embodies another figure that he has left out of his inventory of night dwellers: the studier. The studier enters the book only at its beginning to disappear into the text and be eclipsed by the inventory produced by and through the work of study. Night conceals studiers, leaving only elusive clues to their existence.
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Educational Soundings: a Cryptogenealogy of Sounding Differently
This essay presents an imaginative ‘cryptogenealogy’ of four different educational soundscapes spanning several thousand years of Western history. It begins with a return to the Odysseus myth, and in particular Odysseus’s sonic struggle with the Sirens. The article then charts the echoes of this foundational image through two educational spaces—the study and the classroom—as they appear in the Western tradition of educational thinking. Grounding the analysis in historical documents by Comenius and Vives, the essay demonstrates how educational soundscapes are haunted by Odysseus, and in particular themes of embodiment and disembodiment, location and dislocation. The cryptogenealogy then culminates with a turn to the postdigital, which brings disembodiment and displacement to their absolute dominance, and how these sonic tendencies might be interrupted to produce a new educational acoustics beyond the sacrifices traced throughout the cryptogenealogy.
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