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Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age

Essays on Designer Capitalism, Eco-Aestheticism, and Visual and Popular Culture as West-East Meet

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Draws on a Deleuze and Guattarian philosophy to show how non-representational thought can be understood within visual art and media
  • Presents an overview of the field of Visual Cultural Studies (VCS) as it relates to art education
  • Explores Korean Visual and Popular Culture from the point of view of an outsider
  • Charts the filmography of Kim Ki-Duk from a Deleuzian perspective

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures (PSEF)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Aesthetics of Designer Capitalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
  3. The End of the World: Posthuman Consequences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
    2. Art|Education at the ‘End of the World’

      • jan jagodzinski
      Pages 251-269
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 311-327

About this book

This book problematizes the role of education in an increasingly mediatized world through the lenses of creativity, new media, and consumerism. At the core of the issue, the author argues, creativity in art education is being co-opted to serve the purposes of current economic trends towards designer capitalism. Using an East meets West approach, jagodzinski draws on Deleuze and Guattarian philosophy to explore visual and popular culture in Korean society, addressing the tensions that exist between designer education and art that explores the human condition. In doing so, he challenges art educators to envision a new paradigm for education which questions established media ontologies and incorporates new ways to confront the crisis of the Anthropocene.

Reviews

​“The essence or heart of this book will reorient and challenge art education in the era of misconceived creativity and designer capitalism. Assemblaging and intersecting Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas, Taoist concepts, Korean popular culture, and bio and media art, jagodzinski deeply and brilliantly offers ways art educators can challenge dominant and representative thoughts in art and education. Most interestingly, the author opens up new possibilities and doors to explore the complexity and interrelationships between Taoism and Deleuze|Guattari philosophy.” 
Ryan Shin, Professor, Art and Visual Culture Education, University of Arizona, USA

“jagodzinski’s analysis of popular and visual culture in South Korea will engage readers with melodramas, films, K-pops, and even PC games. In this book, Korea's cultural singularity provides insights into the capitalist problems circulating through postmodern control societies in the form of desire, control, biopower, and ecology. I am fascinated by ways he invites readers to explore how the assemblages of nature, culture, and technology in the posthuman era are addressed through his minorization of South Korean popular culture.”
—Ahn, In Kee, Professor, Department of Art Education, Chuncheon National University of Education, South Korea

Authors and Affiliations

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

    jan jagodzinski

About the author

jan jagodzinski is Professor of Art and Media Education in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of 15 books.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Designer Capitalism, Eco-Aestheticism, and Visual and Popular Culture as West-East Meet

  • Authors: jan jagodzinski

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48618-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48617-4Published: 04 July 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48620-4Published: 05 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48618-1Published: 03 July 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 327

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Education, general, Media Studies, Audio-Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Asian Culture

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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