Overview
- Enforces the importance art and pedagogy have in envisioning a sustainable perspective vis-à-vis ‘the future in question’
- Presents a series of interrelated arguments focusing on key debates that are challenging the humanities today
- Raises questions for pedagogy on how to develop alternative narratives for the future of education to break from the current technological imagination
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures (PSEF)
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This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bioacoustics, documentary film, installation art, geoperformativity, and glitch aesthetics. The first section attempts to flesh out new aspects of current debates. Questions over the Capitaloscene are explored via conflations of class and climate, revisiting the eco-Marxist analysis of capitalism, and the financial system that thrives on debt. The second section explores the imaginary narratives that raise questions regarding non-human involvement. The third section addresses ’geoartisty,’ the counter artistic responses to the speculariztion of climate disasters, questioning eco-documentaries, and what a post-anthropocentric art might look like. The last section addresses the pedagogical response to the Anthropocene.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Capitalist Framing
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Media and Artistic Responses
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Pedagogical Responses
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Reviews
“This anthology offers a comprehensive overview of the primary issues driving debates concerning the Anthropocene. jagodzinski has brought together an intellectually lively and engaging series of essays that will certainly be a useful text for students interested in the deeper philosophical questions arising from the impact human activities are having for all life on earth.” (Adrian Parr, author of Birth Of A New Earth)
“This book gets at the most vital issue of our time—anthropogenic climate change. It does so in refreshing and creative ways, opening up new veins of thinking about capitalism, art, pedagogy, and the imaginative possibility of new planetary projections. jagodzinski’s introduction provides a comprehensive overview of these urgent theoretical questions about the Anthropocene, as well as engaging the most cutting-edge conversations.” (Clayton Crockett, Professor and Director of the Religious Studies Program, University of Central Arkansas, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
jan jagodzinski is Professor of Visual Art and Media Education in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of seventeen books to date in media, visual art, visual art education, and film.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interrogating the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question
Editors: jan jagodzinski
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78747-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78746-6Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08777-7Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78747-3Published: 09 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 410
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Creativity and Arts Education, Sociology of Education