Experimenting with Nomadic Posthumanism: Conceptualising Education and Rural Learning Ecologies Differently

Kruger, Frans

Abstract

This exploratory article is a thought experiment in thinking differently about education and rural learning ecologies. The wording of the concept rural learning ecologies suggests culture-nature interplay. Underlying this interplay is a logic of thought that posits the human opposite of that which it is not – nature. In this relationship the power to direct and dissect is always skewed towards (human) culture because of the humanist position from which learning ecologies are conceptualised, observed, made sense of and enacted. Drawing on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari I experiment with an alternative understanding of the culture-nature relationship in order to explore the ‘lines of escape’ this offers to conceptualise education differently. I do this through engaging with nomadic posthumanism which treats subjectivity as a continuous process of becoming that is produced in ‘assemblages’ (agencement). Reclaiming the materiality of relations through such an understanding of the subject makes possible the creation of different forms of education and collective (educational) practices.

Citation

Kruger, F. (2015). Experimenting with Nomadic Posthumanism: Conceptualising Education and Rural Learning Ecologies Differently. Alternation, 22(Special Edition 16), 329-345

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 2, 2024
• Print ISSN: 1023-1757
• Electronic ISSN: 2519-5476
• Publisher: CSSALL Publishers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: Special Edition 16
• Pages: 329-345
• Keywords: assemblages, becoming, difference, nomadic subjectivity, posthumanism, rural learning ecologies
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/38383922