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Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle

Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle

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PhilosophyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1088071694
ISBN13: 9781088071694
Publisher: Rittenhouse Book Distributors
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

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.

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