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Thinking Education through Alain Badiou


Free Download Thinking Education through Alain Badiou By Michael A. Peters(eds.)
2010 | 126 Pages | ISBN: 1444337424 | PDF | 2 MB
Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou represents the first collection to explore the educational implications of French philosopher Alain Badiou’s challenge to contemporary philosophical orthodoxy put forth in his 1993 work, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil.Represents the first collection of work in education to grapple with what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise of schooling Takes up Badiou’s challenge to contemporary and conventional Anglo-American doxa Includes original essays by experts in several different educational fields Content: Chapter 1 Introduction: Alain Badiou: ‘Becoming Subject’ to Education (pages 1-7): Kent den HeyerChapter 2 Badiou, Pedagogy and the Arts (pages 8-25): Thomas E. PetersonChapter 3 Badiou’s Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, ‘Art Cannot be Taught-it can However Educate!’ (pages 26-44): Jan JagodzinskiChapter 4 Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan and the Ethics of Teaching (pages 45-61): Peter M. TaubmanChapter 5 Reconceptualizing Professional Development for Curriculum Leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou (pages 62-77): Kathleen R. Kesson and James G. HendersonChapter 6 The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul and the Question of Economic Managerialism in Education (pages 78-98): Anna StrhanChapter 7 Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and the Ignorant Schoolmaster (pages 99-110): Charles Andrew Barbour

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Architecture in the Age of Pornography Reading Alain Badiou


Free Download Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou by Nadir Lahiji
English | September 30th, 2021 | ISBN: 1032049049 | 164 pages | True EPUB | 1.16 MB
Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the ‘naked power’ behind its operation. It conforms to the principles of cultural logic of the society of the spectacle, consistent with neoliberal capitalism. The problem with this dominant pedagogy is that it violates the fundamental ethical imperative, putting architecture in direct contradiction with the ‘common good’. In addition, it has let architecture enter the brothel of pornographic capitalism which turns every object into an object of obscene gratification of the senses.

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