Book chapter
Posthumanist learning: Nature as event
Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: The Anthropocene, Posthumanism and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux, pp.27-48
Palgrave Macmillan
2020
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Abstract
This chapter places learning in a posthumanist frame. Starting with classic learning theorists such as Socrates and Plato, we then turn sharply to contemporary thinking acknowledging that a key tenet of posthumanism is to de-centre or deterritorialize the all-important human, and venture towards knowing in a different way. We move through four key concepts of posthumanism, putting these concepts to work though a series of ‘nature as event’ as framed by Debaise (2017) and formerly by Whitehead (1920), James (1912) and Deleuze (1990). Nature as event is a pluralistic concept that rearticulates nature through deterritorializing, de-bifurcation and relationality. In effect, the posthumanist learner (re)adjusts to being already entangled as nature and not separated or dominated by humanist dispositions.
Details
- Title
- Posthumanist learning: Nature as event
- Creators
- Tracy Young - Swinburne University of TechnologyAmy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (Contributor) - Southern Cross UniversityAlexandra Lasczik (Contributor) - Southern Cross UniversityJudith Wilks (Contributor) - Southern Cross UniversityMarianne Ruth Logan (Contributor) - Southern Cross UniversityAngela Turner (Contributor) - Southern Cross UniversityWendy Boyd (Contributor) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: The Anthropocene, Posthumanism and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux, pp.27-48
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; Cham, Switzerland
- Identifiers
- 991012868700002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; Emeritus Faculty; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter