Affect, Biopower, and 'The Fascist inside You': The (Un-)Making of Microfascism in Schools and Classrooms.
TL;DR: The authors demonstrates how Deleuze and Guattari's notion of microfascism is of crucial importance to understand the complexities of contemporary pedagogical efforts to combat populism, right-wing populism, and right-populism.
Abstract: This essay demonstrates how Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of ‘microfascism’ is of crucial importance to understanding the complexities of contemporary pedagogical efforts to combat populism, right-...
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TL;DR: In many parts of the world, nationalism takes new shapes merging with populist, far-right, nativist and green agendas illustrating how political evocations of the nation enjoy growing electoral succ... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Nationalism in many parts of the world takes new shapes merging with populist, far-right, nativist and green agendas illustrating how political evocations of the nation enjoy growing electoral succ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how attention to the affective ideology of post-fascism can inform pedagogical thinking that cultivates an affective attitude towards the post-Fascism.
Abstract: This article engages with the notion of ‘post-fascism’ in contemporary times, and explores how attention to the affective ideology of post-fascism can inform pedagogical thinking that cultivates an...
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TL;DR: In this article, a pedagogical and political approach is proposed for nurturing a political sensitivity that identifies, critiques, and challenges modes of affective governmentality so that possibilities for solidarity emerge.
Abstract: This article utilizes feminist and postcolonial scholarship to shed light on the affective governmentality that takes place in the context of both liberal democracy and right-wing populism. In particular, it articulates a political grammar of feelings that makes visible in democratic education how affective modes of governing operate and what consequences they have. The pedagogical and political approach suggested here advocates nurturing a political sensitivity that identifies, critiques, and challenges modes of affective governmentality so that possibilities for solidarity emerge. This approach focuses on illuminating the twofold logic of the political grammar of feelings, namely, affects and emotions are not universal but are historically situated and that they are ambivalent rather than exclusively positive or negative forces. This twofold logic is a stark reminder that affects and emotions offer both political and pedagogical insights while broadening our understanding of the affective modalities of power.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigate the capacity of future teachers to identify online hate speech and how they develop counterspeeches and alternative narratives based on Human Rights. And they conclude that teacher training needs to be redesigned if we want them to be able to face these problems in their future educational practice.
Abstract: Abstract Hate speech has become a social problem that needs to be addressed urgently. In many cases, these discourses and ideologies arrive through the media and the internet, and they are transferred to educational contexts. Debates of this type should be addressed at school and should be channelled into a democratic debate, and into the definition of shared objectives through the development of counterspeeches and alternative narratives based on Human Rights. In this research, we investigate the capacity of future teachers ( n = 114) to identify online hate speech and how they develop counterspeeches. The results show that the majority are able to identify hate speech. However, future teachers present more difficulties developing counterspeeches or complex alternative narratives, which can be transferred to educational practices. We conclude that teacher training needs to be redesigned if we want them to be able to face these problems in their future educational practice.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that social studies curriculum is replete with undertheorized moments of death and underutilized opportunities to engage with death, this scholarship is guided by the questions: "What place is given to life, death, and the human body (in particular the wounded or slain body)? How are they inscribed in the order of power?" The overall aim of a necropolitical engagement is to foster a deeper understanding of why/how death continues to disproportionately come into being again and again for specific, targeted peoples.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article engages with three commonly traversed social studies topics—depictions of violence and death from the French Revolution, during the Vietnam War, and regarding U.S. histories of racial segregation—through the lens of Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics (i.e., political and social machinations of power that determine who lives and who dies). In particular, this article theorizes how specific necropolitical concepts (e.g., necropower, the living dead, and slow death) can be a generative and powerful form of analysis for social studies educators and their students that exposes intersecting complexities between life, death, political alliance, and power. While this article argues that social studies curriculum is replete with undertheorized moments of death and underutilized opportunities to engage with death, this scholarship is guided by the questions: “What place is given to life, death, and the human body (in particular the wounded or slain body)? How are they inscribed in the order of power?” The overall aim of a necropolitical engagement is to foster a deeper understanding of why/how death continues to disproportionately come into being again and again for specific, targeted peoples.
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TL;DR: Parables for the Virtual as discussed by the authors is an interesting combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multi-faceted argument, and it can be seen as an alternative approach for the wedding of scientific and cultural theory.
Abstract: Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models.
Renewing and assessing William James’s radical empiricism and Henri
Bergson’s philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. If such concepts are as fundamental as signs and significations, he argues, then a new set of theoretical issues appear, and with them potential new paths for the wedding of scientific and cultural theory. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with new distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Parables for the Virtual tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan’s acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multi-faceted argument.
Parables for the Virtual will interest students and scholars of continental and Anglo-American philosophy, cultural studies, cognitive science, electronic art, digital culture, and chaos theory, as well as those concerned with the “science wars” and the relation between the humanities and the sciences in general.
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TL;DR: From the combination of knowledge and actions, someone can improve their skill and ability as discussed by the authors. This is why, the students, workers, or even employers should have reading habit for books.
Abstract: From the combination of knowledge and actions, someone can improve their skill and ability. It will lead them to live and work much better. This is why, the students, workers, or even employers should have reading habit for books. Any book will give certain knowledge to take all benefits. This is what this history of sexuality an introduction tells you. It will add more knowledge of you to life and work better. Try it and prove it.
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TL;DR: This book discusses politics and life in the Twenty-First Century, race in the Age of Genomic Medicine, and Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital.
Abstract: Acknowledgments vii List of Acronyms xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century 9 Chapter 2: Politics and Life 41 Chapter 3: An Emergent Form of Life? 77 Chapter 4: At Genetic Risk 106 Chapter 5: Biological Citizens 131 Chapter 6: Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine 155 Chapter 7: Neurochemical Selves 187 Chapter 8: The Biology of Control 224 Afterword Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital 252 Notes 261 Bibliography 305 Index 341
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel and the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (written with Adam Frank) 93 4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You 123 5. Pedagogy of Buddhism 153 Works Cited 183 Index 189
Abstract: Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Interlude, Pedagogic 27 1. Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel 35 2. Around the Performative: Periperformative Vicinities in Nineteenth-Century Narrative 67 3. Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (Written with Adam Frank) 93 4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You 123 5. Pedagogy of Buddhism 153 Works Cited 183 Index 189
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TL;DR: The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways as mentioned in this paper, and the object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself, which has become one of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques.
Abstract: The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways. The object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself. The contemporary state does not 'nationalize' the corporeality of its subjects into a body politic on which it works en masse, in relation to the body politics of other states competing in similar terms. Biopolitics addresses human existence at the molecular level: it is waged about molecules, amongst molecules, and where the molecules themselves are at stake. Human beings in contemporary Western culture are increasingly coming to understand themselves in somatic terms – corporeality has become of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques. Biopolitics was inextricably bound up with the rise of the life sciences, the human sciences, clinical medicine. It has given birth to techniques, technologies, experts and apparatuses for the care and administration of the life of each and all, from town planning to health services.
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