Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for a Posthuman Age [Paperback]

Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral children, alien reptoids, and faery faiths in order to understand how social movements are renegotiating the boundaries of community.Introduction: These Monstrous Times: From Bestiary to Posthumanist Pedagogy Victor, The Wild Child: Humanist Pedagogy and the Anthropological Machine The Reptoid Hypothesis: Exopedagogy and the UFOther Faery Faiths: Altermodernity and the Divine Violence of Exopedagogy Conclusion: A Monstrous Love Affair: The Ethics of Exopedagogy

By engaging an encyclopedic range of figures from the philosophical tradition and popular culture, Lewis and Kahn lead us on a fascinating journey to discover the monsters that populate our posthuman world. We are confronted by horrible and fearsome beasts of violence, exploitation, and destruction, but we also recognize ourselves in creative monsters that blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman life. Most impressively, Lewis and Kahn propose paths to train the monsters of our world, a monstrous education, a pedagogy for thebeautifulmonsters we can become. - Michael Hardt, co-author of Commonwealth

Our cultural fascinations with the monstrous and its omnipresence in our contemporary Western imaginings play center-stage in this provocative exploration of a zo?philic exopedagogy. From the feral, to the alien, to the faery, Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn put pressure on our affective comfort zones by asking us what it means to love the monstrous amidst and within us. The answer comes through their theoretically vast and conceptually rich exploration of a radical democratic pedagogy of the unrepresentable. - Davide Panagia, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Trent University, Co-Editor of Theory and Event, and author of The Political Life of Sensation

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