Education, the Anthropocene, and Deleuze/Guattari

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Education, the Anthropocene, and Deleuze/Guattari

by David R. Cole ; foreword by Will Steffen

(Researching environmental learning, v. 5)

Brill, c2022

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-177) and index

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Human civilisation stands at an unimaginable precipice. The human past, leading up to today, has seen society develop under the conditions of the Holocene since 10000 BC. However - we are now in the Anthropocene, what Deleuze/Guattari term as the future rupturing the present. This book analyses the Anthropocene given four dimensions: 'tool-enhancement'; 'carbon trail'; 'the phallocene'; and 'atomic-time'. A mode of education and social change lies parallel to this mapping that tackles degrowth, changing consciousness, a Green Utopia, and building a critical-immanent model to realign current practices in the light of globalisation. This is the first book to put the philosophy of Deleuze/Guattari to work for the future, and our collective existence as a differentiated educational practice in the Anthropocene.

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Foreword Will Steffen Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables 1 Overview: The Problem of the Future 1 Introduction 2 What Is the Position of the Future? 3 Why 'Deleuze/Guattari'? - An Analysis 4 Education, Social Change, and the Future 5 The Future of the Anthropocene 2 Tool-Enhancement 1 Introduction 2 Prehistory 3 The Beginnings of Civilisation: Agriculture 4 Metallurgy 5 Global Trade 6 World Machine 3 Carbon Trail 1 Introduction 2 The Discovery of Fire 3 Fire, Light, and Society 4 The 'Energy-Life' Threshold 5 Furnaces, Mining, and Individual Energy Exchange 6 Steam Engines 7 Fossil Fuel Capitalism 4 The Phallocene 1 Introduction 2 The Phallic God-Heads 3 One Phallus-God 4 Establishment of Phallus-Worship 5 The Working Phallic-Week 6 Digital Phallic-Endeavour 5 Atomic-Time 1 Introduction 2 A Universe of Atoms 3 Atomic Theory 4 Electricity 5 Quantum Mechanics 6 The Atomic Bomb 6 Teaching and Learning Differently in the Anthropocene 1 Introduction 2 Attending to the 'Forces of Control' at the Local Level 3 A Global Thinking Matrix 4 What Is Pedagogy of/in the Anthropocene? 7 Incremental Movements towards a New Society 1 Introduction 2 The Great Leap Forward - A Green Utopia? 3 Changing Society at the Micro-Level 4 How Can the Minor Societal Changes Be Augmented? 8 Conclusion: The Double Bind 1 Introduction 2 What Is the Double Bind? 3 The Double Bind of the Future 4 The Role of Politics in the Double Bind 5 Realism and 'Fabulation'... 6 This Is the End of the 'End-Times' References Index

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