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Bernard Stiegler: Technics and Educational Leadership as a Form of Psycho-Power

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This chapter introduces the work and ideas of philosopher Bernard Stiegler and articulates how they might be useful in educational leadership scholarship. The chapter introduces these ideas through an examination of key books and book series before shifting the focus more explicitly to education and educational leadership. The chapter provides a range of analytic tools with which to understand contexts of education in contemporary hyper-industrial capitalism and the effects of this on education and educational leadership. The notions of pharmakon and psycho-power are used as demonstrations of tools for analysis. The chapter includes a glossary of key terms and also some key readings for those new to Stiegler’s work.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term différance comes from Derrida (1973) and designates an interruption of logocentrism, a play between writing and its signification. For an engagement of Derrida with education, see Peters and Biesta (2009), and also in relation to educational leadership, see Niesche (2013).

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    Stiegler elaborates this proposal of a new political economy elsewhere (see Stiegler, 2010b).

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    For example, see Hardy and Boyle (2011), Lingard (2010) and Lingard, Thompson and Sellar (2015). See also a 2015 special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47(2) with papers by Sellar, Niesche, Mills, Gowlett, Lingard and Rasmussen.

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Niesche, R., Gowlett, C. (2019). Bernard Stiegler: Technics and Educational Leadership as a Form of Psycho-Power. In: Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership. Educational Leadership Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8241-3_5

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