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Deleuze and Guattari develop an account of communal interaction and political awareness corresponding to an ontology of becoming that resists the metaphysical priority of substance or essence and that accounts for the multiple networks and forces that underlie these illusory projections of wholeness. Their geo-philosophy accounts for the intersection of the new ontological vision with the concrete social formations indicative of the modern “cosmic” age—post-industrialist, information-driven, virtualized economic capacities, and in the first sections of the paper, I develop an account of the Anthropocene which addresses the ways that human beings have become alienated from the earth, and mired in pessimistic resignation with regard to the possibility of making significant transformations in our politico-economic situation. This malaise is the correlate of a general suspension of imagination, in other words, an inability to imagine a radically different future; and, to my mind, is linked to the issue of pedagogy in light of the Anthropocene.
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Sholtz, J. (2018). Intervals of Resistance: Being True to the Earth in the Light of the Anthropocene. In: jagodzinski, j. (eds) Interrogating the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78747-3_6
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