Full Description
Human civilisation stands at an unimaginable precipice. The human past, leading up to today, has seen society develop under the conditions of the Holocene since 10000 BC. However - we are now in the Anthropocene, what Deleuze/Guattari term as the future rupturing the present. This book analyses the Anthropocene given four dimensions: 'tool-enhancement'; 'carbon trail'; 'the phallocene'; and 'atomic-time'. A mode of education and social change lies parallel to this mapping that tackles degrowth, changing consciousness, a Green Utopia, and building a critical-immanent model to realign current practices in the light of globalisation. This is the first book to put the philosophy of Deleuze/Guattari to work for the future, and our collective existence as a differentiated educational practice in the Anthropocene.
Contents
Foreword
Will Steffen
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
1 Overview: The Problem of the Future
1 Introduction
2 What Is the Position of the Future?
3 Why 'Deleuze/Guattari'? - An Analysis
4 Education, Social Change, and the Future
5 The Future of the Anthropocene
2 Tool-Enhancement
1 Introduction
2 Prehistory
3 The Beginnings of Civilisation: Agriculture
4 Metallurgy
5 Global Trade
6 World Machine
3 Carbon Trail
1 Introduction
2 The Discovery of Fire
3 Fire, Light, and Society
4 The 'Energy-Life' Threshold
5 Furnaces, Mining, and Individual Energy Exchange
6 Steam Engines
7 Fossil Fuel Capitalism
4 The Phallocene
1 Introduction
2 The Phallic God-Heads
3 One Phallus-God
4 Establishment of Phallus-Worship
5 The Working Phallic-Week
6 Digital Phallic-Endeavour
5 Atomic-Time
1 Introduction
2 A Universe of Atoms
3 Atomic Theory
4 Electricity
5 Quantum Mechanics
6 The Atomic Bomb
6 Teaching and Learning Differently in the Anthropocene
1 Introduction
2 Attending to the 'Forces of Control' at the Local Level
3 A Global Thinking Matrix
4 What Is Pedagogy of/in the Anthropocene?
7 Incremental Movements towards a New Society
1 Introduction
2 The Great Leap Forward - A Green Utopia?
3 Changing Society at the Micro-Level
4 How Can the Minor Societal Changes Be Augmented?
8 Conclusion: The Double Bind
1 Introduction
2 What Is the Double Bind?
3 The Double Bind of the Future
4 The Role of Politics in the Double Bind
5 Realism and 'Fabulation'...
6 This Is the End of the 'End-Times'
References
Index
