Jason J Wallin
Biographic Data
| ID | 337235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason J Wallin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason J |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallin |
| SIGNATURE | WALLIN J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7716-6987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Educacene
Of a growing list of names that aim to describe our contemporary epoch, the field of curriculum and pedagogy ought to develop another—what might we collectively call the Educacene. Astride the prot
Anti-Currere
This article proposes anti-currere as a non-philosophical intervention in curriculum theory, drawing on the work of François Laruelle to challenge the field’s foundational obsession with the Real. It argues that curriculum study, despite its surface diversity, remains structurally wedded to a philosophical decision that monopolizes reality by predetermining what is thinkable. Through incisive critique of canonical concepts like the planned/lived …
Heretical patagogy
This essay imagines how the “quasi-philosophy” of Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) might function as a fulcrum for overturning the legacy of “standard” thinking and writing now profuse within the Educacene, or rather, the epoch of globalized educational standardization. This essay will consider how Jarry’s pataphysics or science of imaginary solutions initiates a new image of thought by suspending the Educacene’s naming of reality and by inducing alien a…
Game Preserves: Digital Animals at the Brink of the Post-Anthropocene
As we enter what scientists are calling the 6th mass extinction of life on this planet, we are forced to confront the prospect of a future world without animals. Despite the disappearance of ‘real’ animals in the wake of global ecocatastrophe however, animals proliferate in the ‘Anthropocene’ imaginary, and in particular, through contemporary video games as they reimagine the future relationship of humans and animal life increasingly withdrawn fr…
No Man's Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film
This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian 'eco-horror' film within the so-called 'Anthropocene' era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald's critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror's reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and sett…
Decluttering the Pandemic: Marie Kondo, Minimalism, and the 'Joy' of Waste
Born largely from discourses on environmental sustainability, the contemporary minimalist movement has produced a new relationship to consumer objects. Where the accumulation of objects once conferred the status of wealth and prosperity under capitalism, minimalism aims to rethink the object as a spiritual extension of our inner lives. This is nowhere as evident than in the writing of Marie Kondo, whose teachings on 'joyous' decluttering has enra…
‘No satisfaction, no fun, no future’: Futures thinking in black metal
In this article, we aim to think the burgeoning theoretical orientation known as accelerationism alongside black metal, particularly as black metal harnesses accelerationist strategies of negation and opposition on behalf of surveying a world out-of-step with its ‘normative’ conceptualization. We claim that the relationship of accelerationism and black metal supports a stronger understanding of black metal’s ‘futurist thinking’ in that each culti…
The Holocene Simulacrum
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a broad and varied field of study replete with compelling advocacies for a more humane world. Across a majority of its instances however, ESD might yet be seen to labour in stealth fidelity to a mode of political economy and model of human-nature relations complicit with planetary ecocide. This essay draws largely from the thinking of Jean Baudrillard in an effort to identify the implications of ESD’…
Promoting Extreme Violence: Visual and Narrative Analysis of Select Ultraviolent Terror Propaganda Videos Produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) in 2015 and 2016
This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the use of utopian/dystopian themes. These themes have been present in a number of studies that have examined consumption of the dark dystopic variety. We seek to elucidate on the use of specific techniques and narratives that are relatively new to the global propagand…
Plastic Fantasies: Globalization and the Japanese Cultural Imaginary
This essay broaches the location of cultural production and circulation through an analysis of popular aesthetics and fantasy structures specific to the postindustrial milieu. While tracing the influence of American popular children's culture throughout Japan during post-World War II occupation, this essay demonstrates the rise of the Japanese cultural industry as a unique response to and anticipation of the pressures and anxieties of globalizati…
Vox dei, Vox demonium: A Cursory Exploration of “Sound Thinking” in Horror Film
Vox dei, vox demonium marks a cursory attempt to consider a kind of “sound thinking” largely singular to horror film. The essay focuses in particular on the status of “metaphysical subjectivity” as it is modulated by the “sound thinking” of such horror films as The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, amongst others dealing specifically with audio conceptualizations of demonic possession and invocation
Dark tourism, abjection and blood: A festival context
Consuming abjection: An Examination of Death and Disgust in the Black Metal Scene
This paper examines abjection in the context of the extreme (black) metal scene. Moving beyond the ritual-heavy, community work that dominates much of the death-related consumption literature, our study pieces together death, violence, misanthropy, blood and social tensions to create novel insights into the consumption of disgust. Based on our interview and participant observation methodologies, we present work that explains how death-oriented co…
Pedagogy at the brink of the post-anthropocene
The significance of educational research is today predicated on its ability to engage with the ecological, economic, and political challenges of the anthropocene, for where we might take seriously education’s commitment to the future necessitates a sustained encounter with the implications and questions raised in the wake of ‘our’ mutated planetary ecology. To repeat in the image of those educational practices, models and patterns of thinking tha…
New approaches to dark tourism inquiry: A response to Isaac
Dystopian dark tourism: An exploratory examination
Eschewing Community: Black Metal
There is a great deal of literature that examines community orientations, in particular consumption‐based subcultures rooted in the appreciation of music scenes such as heavy metal and its subgenres. Much of this literature focuses on aspects of community maintenance, reaffirmation of shared identities and building of social bonds. In the present article, we report a study in which consumption of, and fandom in a specific scene in extreme metal, …
Bon mots for bad thoughts
This article questions how the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has been received and connected to the field of curriculum theory. In an effort to reconnect Deleuze-thought to its political force, this essay commences a series of arguments pertaining to the ways in which the revolutionary thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari have been reterritorialized in all-too-conservative ways. Recommencing a connection to the political activism and radic…
What is ?Curriculum Theorizing: For a People Yet to Come
Representation and the Straightjacketing of Curriculum's Complicated Conversation: The pedagogy of Pontypool's minor language
Reconceptualist and post‐reconceptualist curriculum scholars have drawn upon the notion of a complicated curriculum conversation as a means to describe the imbricated, pluralist, and eclectic character of curriculum theorizing. Insofar as this curriculum conversation is accomplished via language however, it remains wed to a particular representational logic restricting what might be thought. This essay explores the question of what it means to th…
Guided by Voices
Creative Expression, Creative Education: Creativity as a Primary Rationale for Education by Robert Kelly and Carl Leggo
Forgoing the popular maxim, I begin this review approaching Creative Expression, Creative Education by way of its cover.Juxtaposed against a background of diagrammatic doodles, improvised musical compositions, and impromptu screenplay edits, birds plot variegated lines of flight.Over the course of Creative Expression, Creative Education's 22 essays, the imagistic concept of the cover insists: this collection captures creativity in the act of comp…
Psychoanalytic Implications for the “Consulting Cure”
From October 2004 to June 2006, I worked as a curriculum leader across 18 elementary schools as part of an Alberta Incentive for School Improvement project focused on the reform question: How does inquiry transform learning environments? As a curriculum leader, my role included, but was not limited to, the introduction, articulation, and development of the project’s main tenets and goals among the teaching staffs of participating schools. In supp…
Generativity: Lived Experience as Curricular Content
This article explores notions of work and emergence in relation to our experience of being in the world. The article takes the notion of work as something more than the mere occupations of students, reorienting it in the literature of Zen Buddhism, Marxism, and chaos mathematics. Lived experience seeks to shed light on the growing dissociation between student and curricular content and provides a concrete, practical example that suggests the poss…
Dystopian dark tourism: An exploratory examination
Pedagogy at the brink of the post-anthropocene
The significance of educational research is today predicated on its ability to engage with the ecological, economic, and political challenges of the anthropocene, for where we might take seriously education’s commitment to the future necessitates a sustained encounter with the implications and questions raised in the wake of ‘our’ mutated planetary ecology. To repeat in the image of those educational practices, models and patterns of thinking tha…
Decluttering the Pandemic: Marie Kondo, Minimalism, and the 'Joy' of Waste
Born largely from discourses on environmental sustainability, the contemporary minimalist movement has produced a new relationship to consumer objects. Where the accumulation of objects once conferred the status of wealth and prosperity under capitalism, minimalism aims to rethink the object as a spiritual extension of our inner lives. This is nowhere as evident than in the writing of Marie Kondo, whose teachings on 'joyous' decluttering has enra…
New approaches to dark tourism inquiry: A response to Isaac
Dark tourism, abjection and blood: A festival context
Eschewing Community: Black Metal
There is a great deal of literature that examines community orientations, in particular consumption‐based subcultures rooted in the appreciation of music scenes such as heavy metal and its subgenres. Much of this literature focuses on aspects of community maintenance, reaffirmation of shared identities and building of social bonds. In the present article, we report a study in which consumption of, and fandom in a specific scene in extreme metal, …
Consuming abjection: An Examination of Death and Disgust in the Black Metal Scene
This paper examines abjection in the context of the extreme (black) metal scene. Moving beyond the ritual-heavy, community work that dominates much of the death-related consumption literature, our study pieces together death, violence, misanthropy, blood and social tensions to create novel insights into the consumption of disgust. Based on our interview and participant observation methodologies, we present work that explains how death-oriented co…
Bon mots for bad thoughts
This article questions how the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has been received and connected to the field of curriculum theory. In an effort to reconnect Deleuze-thought to its political force, this essay commences a series of arguments pertaining to the ways in which the revolutionary thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari have been reterritorialized in all-too-conservative ways. Recommencing a connection to the political activism and radic…
Representation and the Straightjacketing of Curriculum's Complicated Conversation: The pedagogy of Pontypool's minor language
Reconceptualist and post‐reconceptualist curriculum scholars have drawn upon the notion of a complicated curriculum conversation as a means to describe the imbricated, pluralist, and eclectic character of curriculum theorizing. Insofar as this curriculum conversation is accomplished via language however, it remains wed to a particular representational logic restricting what might be thought. This essay explores the question of what it means to th…
No Man's Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film
This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian 'eco-horror' film within the so-called 'Anthropocene' era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald's critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror's reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and sett…
The Holocene Simulacrum
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a broad and varied field of study replete with compelling advocacies for a more humane world. Across a majority of its instances however, ESD might yet be seen to labour in stealth fidelity to a mode of political economy and model of human-nature relations complicit with planetary ecocide. This essay draws largely from the thinking of Jean Baudrillard in an effort to identify the implications of ESD’…
Promoting Extreme Violence: Visual and Narrative Analysis of Select Ultraviolent Terror Propaganda Videos Produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) in 2015 and 2016
This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the use of utopian/dystopian themes. These themes have been present in a number of studies that have examined consumption of the dark dystopic variety. We seek to elucidate on the use of specific techniques and narratives that are relatively new to the global propagand…
Generativity: Lived Experience as Curricular Content
This article explores notions of work and emergence in relation to our experience of being in the world. The article takes the notion of work as something more than the mere occupations of students, reorienting it in the literature of Zen Buddhism, Marxism, and chaos mathematics. Lived experience seeks to shed light on the growing dissociation between student and curricular content and provides a concrete, practical example that suggests the poss…
Psychoanalytic Implications for the “Consulting Cure”
From October 2004 to June 2006, I worked as a curriculum leader across 18 elementary schools as part of an Alberta Incentive for School Improvement project focused on the reform question: How does inquiry transform learning environments? As a curriculum leader, my role included, but was not limited to, the introduction, articulation, and development of the project’s main tenets and goals among the teaching staffs of participating schools. In supp…
Guided by Voices
Creative Expression, Creative Education: Creativity as a Primary Rationale for Education by Robert Kelly and Carl Leggo
Forgoing the popular maxim, I begin this review approaching Creative Expression, Creative Education by way of its cover.Juxtaposed against a background of diagrammatic doodles, improvised musical compositions, and impromptu screenplay edits, birds plot variegated lines of flight.Over the course of Creative Expression, Creative Education's 22 essays, the imagistic concept of the cover insists: this collection captures creativity in the act of comp…
What is ?Curriculum Theorizing: For a People Yet to Come
Representation and the Straightjacketing of Curriculum's Complicated Conversation: The pedagogy of Pontypool's minor language
Reconceptualist and post‐reconceptualist curriculum scholars have drawn upon the notion of a complicated curriculum conversation as a means to describe the imbricated, pluralist, and eclectic character of curriculum theorizing. Insofar as this curriculum conversation is accomplished via language however, it remains wed to a particular representational logic restricting what might be thought. This essay explores the question of what it means to th…
Bon mots for bad thoughts
This article questions how the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has been received and connected to the field of curriculum theory. In an effort to reconnect Deleuze-thought to its political force, this essay commences a series of arguments pertaining to the ways in which the revolutionary thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari have been reterritorialized in all-too-conservative ways. Recommencing a connection to the political activism and radic…
Eschewing Community: Black Metal
There is a great deal of literature that examines community orientations, in particular consumption‐based subcultures rooted in the appreciation of music scenes such as heavy metal and its subgenres. Much of this literature focuses on aspects of community maintenance, reaffirmation of shared identities and building of social bonds. In the present article, we report a study in which consumption of, and fandom in a specific scene in extreme metal, …
New approaches to dark tourism inquiry: A response to Isaac
Dystopian dark tourism: An exploratory examination
Pedagogy at the brink of the post-anthropocene
The significance of educational research is today predicated on its ability to engage with the ecological, economic, and political challenges of the anthropocene, for where we might take seriously education’s commitment to the future necessitates a sustained encounter with the implications and questions raised in the wake of ‘our’ mutated planetary ecology. To repeat in the image of those educational practices, models and patterns of thinking tha…
Dark tourism, abjection and blood: A festival context
Consuming abjection: An Examination of Death and Disgust in the Black Metal Scene
This paper examines abjection in the context of the extreme (black) metal scene. Moving beyond the ritual-heavy, community work that dominates much of the death-related consumption literature, our study pieces together death, violence, misanthropy, blood and social tensions to create novel insights into the consumption of disgust. Based on our interview and participant observation methodologies, we present work that explains how death-oriented co…
Vox dei, Vox demonium: A Cursory Exploration of “Sound Thinking” in Horror Film
Vox dei, vox demonium marks a cursory attempt to consider a kind of “sound thinking” largely singular to horror film. The essay focuses in particular on the status of “metaphysical subjectivity” as it is modulated by the “sound thinking” of such horror films as The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, amongst others dealing specifically with audio conceptualizations of demonic possession and invocation
‘No satisfaction, no fun, no future’: Futures thinking in black metal
In this article, we aim to think the burgeoning theoretical orientation known as accelerationism alongside black metal, particularly as black metal harnesses accelerationist strategies of negation and opposition on behalf of surveying a world out-of-step with its ‘normative’ conceptualization. We claim that the relationship of accelerationism and black metal supports a stronger understanding of black metal’s ‘futurist thinking’ in that each culti…
The Holocene Simulacrum
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a broad and varied field of study replete with compelling advocacies for a more humane world. Across a majority of its instances however, ESD might yet be seen to labour in stealth fidelity to a mode of political economy and model of human-nature relations complicit with planetary ecocide. This essay draws largely from the thinking of Jean Baudrillard in an effort to identify the implications of ESD’…
Promoting Extreme Violence: Visual and Narrative Analysis of Select Ultraviolent Terror Propaganda Videos Produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) in 2015 and 2016
This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the use of utopian/dystopian themes. These themes have been present in a number of studies that have examined consumption of the dark dystopic variety. We seek to elucidate on the use of specific techniques and narratives that are relatively new to the global propagand…
Plastic Fantasies: Globalization and the Japanese Cultural Imaginary
This essay broaches the location of cultural production and circulation through an analysis of popular aesthetics and fantasy structures specific to the postindustrial milieu. While tracing the influence of American popular children's culture throughout Japan during post-World War II occupation, this essay demonstrates the rise of the Japanese cultural industry as a unique response to and anticipation of the pressures and anxieties of globalizati…
Game Preserves: Digital Animals at the Brink of the Post-Anthropocene
As we enter what scientists are calling the 6th mass extinction of life on this planet, we are forced to confront the prospect of a future world without animals. Despite the disappearance of ‘real’ animals in the wake of global ecocatastrophe however, animals proliferate in the ‘Anthropocene’ imaginary, and in particular, through contemporary video games as they reimagine the future relationship of humans and animal life increasingly withdrawn fr…
No Man's Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film
This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian 'eco-horror' film within the so-called 'Anthropocene' era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald's critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror's reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and sett…
Decluttering the Pandemic: Marie Kondo, Minimalism, and the 'Joy' of Waste
Born largely from discourses on environmental sustainability, the contemporary minimalist movement has produced a new relationship to consumer objects. Where the accumulation of objects once conferred the status of wealth and prosperity under capitalism, minimalism aims to rethink the object as a spiritual extension of our inner lives. This is nowhere as evident than in the writing of Marie Kondo, whose teachings on 'joyous' decluttering has enra…
Heretical patagogy
This essay imagines how the “quasi-philosophy” of Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) might function as a fulcrum for overturning the legacy of “standard” thinking and writing now profuse within the Educacene, or rather, the epoch of globalized educational standardization. This essay will consider how Jarry’s pataphysics or science of imaginary solutions initiates a new image of thought by suspending the Educacene’s naming of reality and by inducing alien a…
The Educacene
Of a growing list of names that aim to describe our contemporary epoch, the field of curriculum and pedagogy ought to develop another—what might we collectively call the Educacene. Astride the prot
Anti-Currere
This article proposes anti-currere as a non-philosophical intervention in curriculum theory, drawing on the work of François Laruelle to challenge the field’s foundational obsession with the Real. It argues that curriculum study, despite its surface diversity, remains structurally wedded to a philosophical decision that monopolizes reality by predetermining what is thinkable. Through incisive critique of canonical concepts like the planned/lived …
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works)