Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music

Woods, Peter J.

Abstract

While education research has largely avoided posthumanist scholarship, this analytic lens challenges the ways in which researchers have conceptualized educational technologies, i.e. collaboration and embodied learning, as primarily humanist endeavors that overtly center on human subjects within educational processes. By exploring sites of research that overtly enact posthumanist conceptions of learning, education researchers can address this oversight. In this article, I investigate posthumanist collaboration within the noise music genre, positioning noise music as a posthuman musical tradition and, in turn, a posthuman educational context. In doing so, I reframe noise (in the broad sense of the term) as a tool for engaging the posthuman through multiple educational praxes both in and outside of this specific genre. To construct this argument, I place extant literature on posthumanism and noise in conversation with descriptions of performances from the 2017 Experimental Education Series, a quarterly workshop and concert series that features a broad spectrum of noise musicians, and interviews with teaching artists from this series.

Citation

Woods, P. J. (2021). Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 18(1), 45-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2020.1786747

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 20, 2020
• Publication Date: Jan 2, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 13, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Journal: Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Print ISSN: 1550-5170
• Electronic ISSN: 2156-8154
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-65
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2020.1786747
• Keywords: Education
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/18237169
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15505170.2020.1786747