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<p>1. By Way of Introduction.- Part I Technogenetic Assemblages of Education.- 2. Synthetic Politics: Responding to Algorithms of Education.- 3. To the Objects Themselves.- 4. Intensifying Postphenomenology: Through Algorithms of the Twenty-First Century.- 5. A Cosmotechnology for the Post-Anthropocene?.- 6. Racialized Negative Machines.- 7. Education in the Neganthropocene: A Pharmacological Search.- 8. The Neganthropocene Revisited: Entropy, World, Earth.- Part II Neurology, Epigenesis, Quantum Mind, and Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene.- 9. Neuroscience with New Materialism.- 10. Quantum Mind: Part 1.- 11. Quantum Mind: Part 2.- 12. Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene.- Part III The In|difference of Anorganic Life (An Apparition of Education).- 13. The State of Play.- 14. In|difference.</p>

<b>jan jagodzinski</b> is Emeritus Professor of Art and Media Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada. His is the author of twenty book titles and the series editor for <i>Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures</i>.

As a follow up to <i>Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume I</i>, this book addresses three major areas in response to the post-Anthropocene: Technology, Neurology, Quantum. Each of these areas is broadly addressed in relation to the concerns that have arisen both theoretically and educationally. As in Volume I, the author terms these to be encounters as each area presents a particular problematic when addressing the phase change that the planet is undergoing where the anthropogenic labour of global humanity is contributing to climate change, endangering our very existence. Technology in education has been a significant development. There is a concerted effort to review this development placing stress on the rise of learning machines and algorithms. In the second encounter the vast literature on neurology is addressed, especially neurodiversity and the various symptoms that have emerged in the post-Anthropocene era. The last section reviews issues related to quantum theory as this is fundamental to tensions between physics and metaphysics. The volume concludes with the author’s own pedagogical proposal for the future.

Responds to the post-phenomenological shift in Education Uses new materialism to draw out the broader ethical and political concerns of the technological turn in Education Explores neurology, epigenesis, and the quantum mind in the context of Education

<p>“This is one of the most original books within contemporary posthuman pedagogical thought, both beyond and up to date with our current ecological crisis. Through its conceptual courage and innovations, jan jagodzinski, in an exciting way, moves educational thinking into new terrain, tackling the difficulties of our age of environmental and societal disaster head on. In this two-volume book, jagodzinski has created a new classic for the future, gathering his thoughts from a lifelong engagement with art, education, political ecology, capitalism, media and the (post) Anthropocene into a baffling masterpiece. If you want to engage seriously with finding new ways out of the miserable ecological and societal situation we face today within pedagogy, as elsewhere, this is doubtless a book for you.” (Michael Paulsen, Associate Professor and Head of CUHRE – Center for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment, University of Southern Denmark)</p><p>“The scope of this work is extensive in its attempt to ‘turn away’ from education as it exists within its institutionalised formats that are driven largely by the values of capitalist economies and to argue for education and approaches to pedagogy that try to recognise and work with the complex issues confronting people today in what are called post-Anthropocene times…times in which new values are required, new subjectivities, new assemblages of practice that try to appreciate (though this may be impossible) and work with local and global problematics towards, we might say, a convivial future.<br></p><p>The striking feature across all of this work is its depth and range of scholarship as well as its extensive reference to and critical discussion of numerous problematics covering a number of surfaces including education, pedagogy, numerous philosophical fields, social and cultural studies, anthropology, local and global politics, ethics. It is a text, which in Deleuze and Guattari’s terminology, is attempting to ‘become with a world’ and in doing so registers the enormous and unending problematics of such becoming without pretending to offer solutions, rather it faces our difficulties with concern in the Quaker sense of this term (as employed by whitehead).</p><p>I know of no other text in the domain of educational or pedagogic work (though the scope is much wider than this) that is tackling our current difficulties head on. The critical discussion of theoretical work in the many fields that are covered is comprehensive and may be somewhat daunting to some, but this feeling only then emphasises the complexities that the work is attempting to engage with in a serious manner.” (Dennis Atkinson, Professor Emeritus,&nbsp;Goldsmiths University of London, UK)</p><p>“jagodzinski’s two volume work presents encounters with a number of areas that address the topology of the post-Anthropocene: childhood, environment, Indigeneity, technology, neurology and his own attempt that projects a possible future path for education to confront the phase change of the Earth. While no solutions are offered, the right problems are put into focus through an in-depth and comprehensive discussion concerning this problematic as undertaken by numerous philosophical fields. Calling predominately on the theoretical tool kit of Deleuze and Guattari, the recognition of creative destruction cannot be dismissed. Education, he suggests, needs to address the disruptive potential of the planet’s physical change that offers no redemptive anthropomorphization. An important book in these dark times.” (Bernd Herzogenrath, Institute for English & American Studies, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany​)​</p>