1st Edition
Inoperative Learning A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities
List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface (Fred Moten and Stefano Harney) 1. Inception 2. Divestment Interruption 1: Sopa d’Europa Interruption 2: "Coming of John" 3. Impersonality Interruption 3: Berlin Chronicle 4. Inhumanity Interruption 4: Going Feral 5. Impropriety Interruption 5: "Bad Design" 6. Irresponsibility Interruption 6: "The Test" Interruption 7: "Absent Minded" Examiner 7. Ineffectiveness Interruption 8: A Comedic Sense of Teaching Interruption 6: "The Test" Interruption 7: "Absent Minded" Examiner 7. Ineffectiveness Interruption 8: A Comedic Sense of Teaching
Biography
Tyson E. Lewis is Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of North Texas.
Tyson E. Lewis dissolves the means-ends logic in the hierarchy "philosopher–teacher–student" that has held us captive since Plato. With constant reference to Italian critic Giorgio Agamben, Lewis plots ways of not-getting-educated—friends studying alongside one another, a student scattered in distraction, a teacher miming virtuous actions as if to say, "anybody can play at this." More than a philosophical critique of educational theory: this book also tells how to live joyfully within a finite frame. When there is no final, total "in-order-to," we receive the "gift of inoperativity." - Paul North, Professor Germanic Languages, Yale University, USA
