CFPs
South Korea as Method: Korean Education as Postcolonial/Post-Oriental Discourse
11 Mar 2024 — Social Media
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Educational Philosophy and Theory For a Special Issue on South Korea as Method: Korean Education as Postcolonial/Post-Oriental Discourse Abstract deadline 15 April 2024 Manuscript deadline 01 November 2024 Special Issue Editor(s) Young Chun Kim, Chinju National Uni…
Agora Archive — Columns
Romancing the Apocalypse
24 Feb 2024
Rejecting a world of communal solidarity and love that values affirmation, respect and reciprocal relations among diverse groups of human beings is irredeemably antagonistic to the purported values we associate with American citizenship. Yet such a rejection seems today to be in lockstep with the pr…
Agora Archive — Columns
Decolonisation isn’t pretty or complicated
25 Jan 2024
Protest to free Palestine! (Answer Indiana, Oct 8 2023) The first pro-Palestine demonstration called after the latest counterattack by a host of Palestinian forces on October 7, endorsed by Students for Justice in Palestine, the ANSWER Coalition and others, put matters very plainly: Today, we witnes…
Agora Archive — Columns
A Problem of the Personal
25 Jan 2024
The Great Chain of Being (Didacus Valade, 1579) Here Lanney Mayer responds to Peter McLaren's columns engaging with Christopher Rufo. Lanney is currently writing a book on the Enlightenment and education called Recovering a Human(e) Education: A Trans-Modern Perspective. Addressing Rufo, I see two r…
Agora Archive — Columns
Finding Fictionalism, or Fictionalism Finding Me
25 Jan 2024
Dahlbeck, J. (2023). Fictionalism: The art of teaching truth disguised as lies. Brill. Fictionalism: The Art of Teaching Truth Disguised as Lies is undoubtedly my most personal book to date. Having almost lost myself in the task of systematically working through different aspects of Spinoza’s philos…
Agora Archive — Ideas
Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt
22 Jan 2024
Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt, by Steve Fuller, Springer Cham, 2023, 171pp., USD43.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-031-36327-6 Some years ago, when I was doing my postdoctoral fellowship at the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative in Toronto, I decided to sit in on th…
Events
Thinking From Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge & Perspectives
12 Jan 2024 — Super User
13-14th February 2024 — School of Philosophy, RSSS Building ANU
This workshop asks how Western Philosophy should proceed if it takes seriously the challenge of decolonisation and of opening a respectful dialogue with Indigenous philosophies and knowledge systems. It explores ways to improve the plurality of the Philosophy discipline by recognising First Nations …
Agora Archive — Columns
A Message to Vladimir Putin
19 Dec 2023
Behind the Campist Curtain I wish to begin with a series of questions, the answers to which will be obvious to any red-blooded leftist. Does the United States harbour an insatiable appetite for perpetual warfare? Does it suffer from a fatal attraction to conflicts that history has etched in agonisin…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Eschaton is Now: José Porfirio Miranda Against the Catholic Right’s Anti-Woke Christianity
16 Dec 2023
Introduction The work of Jesuit theologian José Porfirio Miranda poses a provocative question: What if, in the dominant Western narrative, it was Christianity that ignited the oxidising flame of communism? Picture a timeline from the first century to the nineteenth, where resilient groups of Christ…
Agora Archive — Columns
Killing Children, the Burdens of Conscience and the Israel-Hamas War
10 Dec 2023
Reprinted with the permission of the author and Counterpunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/08/killing-children-the-burdens-of-conscience-and-the-israel-hamas-war/ (image by Banksy) The massacre of innocent people is a serious matter. It is not a thing to be easily forgotten. It is our duty t…
Agora Archive — Columns
Spiritual and Material Antisemitism, Julius Evola and the Threat of Contemporary Fascism
1 Dec 2023
Kaushik Jayaram has written a cautionary essay on why fascism is on the rise the world over that should provoke angry remonstrances from the public but will likely be met with a withering indifference if not insipient and callous antipathy. Much has been written about fascism and the proliferation o…
Agora Archive — Columns
‘Being-Together’ Here Now at the End of the World: A Philosophical Imperative
11 Nov 2023
For 戴南洲 Dai Nanzhou (Robbie) in friendship: ‘Mountains in the mist’ The concept of ‘being-together’ explores the idea that humans are inherently social beings, with their survival historically dependent on social interactions that foster interconnectedness, interdependence and a sense of community.…
Books
Eco-rational education: An educational response to environmental crisis
10 Nov 2023 — Thornton, Simone
Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and destructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education. The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of environmental education across the curriculum is essential to the development of ecologically rational citizens capable of responding to the environmental crisis and an increasingly changing world. Using philosophical analysis, particularly environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and ecofeminism, the book develops an understanding of contemporary issues in education, especially inquiry-based learning as pedagogy, diversifying knowledge, environmental and epistemic justice, climate change education, and citizenship education. Eco-Rational Education will be of interest to researchers and post-graduate students of social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, as well as environmental philosophy, ethics, and teacher education.
Books
Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West: Japanese Insights and Perspectives
9 Nov 2023 — Masamichi Ueno
Agora Archive — Columns
Refuge and Resilience: Being-Together in a Post-Apocalyptic Era
31 Oct 2023
‘The Golden Calf: Technology as Apocalypse’ by Karl Anton Wolf Apocalyptic Literature Apocalyptic literature as an aspect of Judaic-Christian culture can be traced to the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and Revelations as the last book of the Christian Bible, although early sources indicate the i…
Agora Archive — Ideas
What Would it Take to Make Knowledge-Sharing Possible?
30 Oct 2023
It’s open access week on Brill. So, in this episode of Humanities Matter on Spotify, Ramzi Nasir and guests break down the concept of open access to research. Is it a basic human right? What’s its role in shaping global development? And how are technologies - both new and old - influencing a movemen…
Agora Archive — Ideas
Higher Education for Good
28 Oct 2023
Czerniewicz, L., & Cronin, C. (2023). Higher education for good: Teaching and learning futures. Open Book. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0363 When there is the opportunity for deep thinking about “higher education for good” we should always ask, “good for whom?” One of the most devastating conseq…
Agora Archive — Columns
Xi Jinping’s Global Civilisation Initiative
28 Oct 2023
A single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden. In the last year, President Xi has issued three major global initiatives: the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and, most recently, the Global Civilisation Initiati…
Agora Archive — Columns
The US War Machine and Culture of War
20 Oct 2023
The concept of Empire is dedicated to the idea of peace. (Hardt & Negri, 2004) A structuralist analysis of the US permanent war economy follows the governmentality of the market as revealed by mainstream economics to make three underlying assumptions: (i) peace is a normal state of affairs that…
Agora Archive — Columns
Co-governance and biculturalism in education in Aotearoa New Zealand
21 Sep 2023
Mural at Western Springs College/Ngā Puna o Waiōrea, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland In Aotearoa New Zealand, the concept of co-governance has been used mainly in discussions about national conservation lands. That these discussions have been widespread for some time is indicated by a 2016 report from the…
Agora Archive — Columns
White Supremacy and ‘White Innocence’ Were Behind the Killings in Jacksonville
13 Sep 2023
Reprinted with permission from Truthout, September 8, 2023. (Image by Mark Dixon) The murder of three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, last month by white male supremacist Ryan Christopher Palmeter, who later killed himself, cannot be understood as anything other than an act of racist terroris…
Agora Archive — Columns
BRICS11
6 Sep 2023
At the two-day BRICS Summit 2023 in Johannesburg (August 22–24), the fifteenth annual summit since the establishment of the organisation in 2006, the five member states of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa took the historic decision to expand the BRICS membership by adding six new member st…
Agora Archive — Columns
New World Financial Architecture?
25 Aug 2023
The BRICS bloc and the ‘Next Eleven’* Introduction: The Challenges The BRICS phenomenon that started life as a Goldman Sachs’ concept for emerging or rising economies shifted to a formal institutional status in 2006 of four countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later five countries with the a…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 43(2) Computational Thinking and the Curriculum
Visual modelling and emergent aspects of computational thinking
22 Aug 2023
James E. Clayson American University of Paris, Paris, France Abstract In 2006, Jeanette Wing announced—in a very short, three-page paper—a new discipline she labelled ‘Computational Thinking.’ This new field, CT, she said, is not the same as just programming, because it also includes the ener…