Abstract
The Precarious Future of Education presents the paradox of the future itself. It is based on a series of talks titled After the Future of Education held at the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, in the winter semester of 2014. The title is more in keeping with the Möbius twist that is the future. At one point the future meant progress, a telos that aimed at reachable social transformations made possible through scientific progress. Then came postmodernism, and the grand narratives fell away, a melancholia settled over us. The question of the future in the post-postmodern world has come to a standstill. Precisely what is it that we are moving toward these days?
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jagodzinski, j. (2017). The Precarious Future of Education: The Speculative Fictions of Education. In: jagodzinski, j. (eds) The Precarious Future of Education. Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48691-2_1
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