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ERIC Number: EJ1415855
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1857
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5812
"Anti-Oedipus in the Anthropocene": Education and the Deterritorializing Machine
David R. Cole
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v56 n3 p285-297 2024
The Deleuze/Guattari text "Anti-Oedipus" burst onto the intellectual scene in 1972 as a radical new means to reconceptualise capitalism and its effects. At the heart of "Anti-Oedipus" and its analysis of capitalism is the concept of deterritorialization, and how it evacuates identities, culture, values, and, indeed, coherent thought itself, and it makes them susceptible to the equations and dynamics of capital flows. "Anti-Oedipus" presents the mechanisms with respect to how deterritorialization interacts with and to an extent liberates desire as "desiring-machines." This philosophy of education paper applies the workings of deterritorialization and desire from "Anti-Oedipus" to the dynamics of contemporary climate change education and the Anthropocene. As such, it posits this dynamic as being critical to present day approaches to the philosophy of education that wish to engage with capitalism and its effects, and at the same time positively enter the climate change debate. This paper suggests that understanding the matrix of deterritorialization, desire, climate change and learning, is perhaps the most important work that can be performed in the philosophy of education today and with respect to the future.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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