Derek R. Ford

Education for the Commons

Communist Study

Elements for a Marxist Pedagogy

Encountering Education

Political Pedagogy, Geography, and Urban Revolution

Education and the Production of Space

Insurgent Philosophy and Praxis

Politics and Pedagogy in the Post-Truth Era

Tyson E. Lewis

Hans Schildermans

Towards an Ecology of Study

Experiments in Decolonizing the University

Curry Stephenson Malott

Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming

Marx, Capital, and Education

Antonio Leal

Elaine Chase

Alexis Gibbs

An Adventure in Creative Literacy

A Voice for Maria Favela

Curry Malott

From Colonization and Slavery to the Decline of US Imperialism

History of Education for the Many

David I. Backer

Reassessing Critical Education

Althusser and Education

Hayon Park

The Politics of Childhood Art

Rancière and Emancipatory Art Pedagogies

Exploring the nexus between aesthetics, pedagogy, and politics illustrates the central role education plays in reproducing injustice and inhibiting confidence in revolutionary struggle. Demonstrating how capitalism and its attendant forms of oppression are not merely cognitive but perceptual, Derek R. Ford proposes that revolutionary education demands the production of aesthetic experiences through which we sense the possibility and actuality of alternative worlds. In response to this pressing task, Ford develops a praxis of teaching and a pedagogy of unlearning that, in our current conjuncture, creates conditions for encountering what Jennifer Ponce de León calls "an other aesthetics." Mapping contemporary capital as a perceptual ecology of structures, social relations, beliefs, and feelings, Teaching the Actuality of Revolution provides an extensive new set of concepts, practices, and readings for revolutionaries to better plan, enact, reflect on, and refine our organizing efforts. "This book offers an expansive and inspiring examination of an issue crucially important to revolutionary practice and the struggles of all working class and oppressed people: how are humans' understanding and perception of the world forged through class struggle? In it, Derek Ford brilliantly illuminates key insights of Marx and Engels' work, as well as that of Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Paulo Freire, and many contemporary Marxist theorists. His far-reaching discussions of ideology, aesthetics, pedagogy, and the arts offer valuable tools for unlearning capital's perceptual ecology and forging new worlds of sense and perception that concretely contribute to the communist struggle." -Jennifer Ponce de León, author of Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War. "Ford expertly wields a robust analysis of sensory perception and perceptual mapping against the dominant aesthetic ecological regime which reigns as an extension of the dictatorship of capital and which is reproduced, according to Ford, pedagogically. What emerges from this exploration is essential reading for educators, organizers, and anyone interested in (un)learning the ideology and imposed sensorium of capital and, ultimately, in teaching the actuality of revolution!" -Breht O'Shea, Revolutionary Left Radio

Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle

Teaching the Actuality of Revolution

This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left’s embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital’s circuits. As the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.

Beyond the Knowledge Economy

Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect

Traversing the fields of pedagogy, philosophy, and political theory, this book develops a marxist theory of education that will be useful for academics and activists alike. The second edition includes two additional chapters as well as a new preface and revisions throughout.

The first monograph on Lyotard and education engages Lyotard’s work through different pedagogical modes of reading, writing, voicing, and listening, revealing crucial educational, political, aesthetic, and epistemological distinctions between knowledge and thinking.

Jean-François Lyotard, Pedagogy, Thought

Inhuman Educations

Alexander J. Means

Graham B. Slater

In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for enacting a global educational commons.

Global Pedagogy and Politics

Educational Commons in Theory and Practice

Demonstrating that learning is the educational logic that underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic. This book will be of interest to scholars of educational philosophy, political theory, philosophy, critical pedagogy, composition and rhetoric, and peace and conflict studies.

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