Abstract:This essay considers the resonance between the demands of a pedagogical practice addressed to the (historical) potentiality of the pedagogical subject, in the time of apocalyptic techno-capitalist con...This essay considers the resonance between the demands of a pedagogical practice addressed to the (historical) potentiality of the pedagogical subject, in the time of apocalyptic techno-capitalist consumerist production, and the time-problematic of postcoloniality. It argues that the present so-called ‘professionalization’ of the academy neglects essential ethical and spiritual obligations of pedagogy that are especially highlighted if looked at from a catastrophic postcolonial perspective – a perspective that increasingly resonates with the general condition of our historical moment. The devastation of historical time thus revealed is not an impediment, but an opportunity for the task of pedagogy that bears the promise of a return to its fundamental mission and temporality – that of addressing the potential of the pedagogical subject in its own, peculiar time.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-07-09
Language: en
Type: article
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