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Interrogating the Anthropocene

Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question

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Editors:
  1. jan jagodzinski

    1. Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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  • 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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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Pedagogical Responses

    1. Dispatch from the Future: Science Fictioning (in) the Anthropocene

      • Jessie Beier
      Pages 359-400

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 401-410
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About this book

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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“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

  • Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    jan jagodzinski

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

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