Ruth Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9665-9330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Schooling and the enchantment of modernity
Heidegger, the Metacrisis and the Enchantment of Schooling
Modern society is under the illusion that calculation and measurement amounts to control. Heidegger’s critique of the enchantment of modernity shows how the machinations of power are inhibiting the course of evolving change. People cannot reflect on the real failures of the many iterations of the polycrisis and learn from them. This failure to notice failure is at the core of the metacrisis. Modern society is under the illusion that progress as c…
Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the Future World to Come
Environmental education is never neutral; through what is emphasised or ignored, education shapes how learners understand their relationships with the more-than-human world. This editorial introduces the Special Issue Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the Future World to Come, situating environmental education within a planetary metacrisis produced by intersecting ecological, social, economic and epistemic failures. Drawing on critiques of col…
Stiegler and Butler on AI and the evolution of intelligence
Education is concerned with the production of intelligence. Is AI intelligent? and what are the implications for educating humanity? Samuel Butler makes the case that machinery emerges in co-relation with the evolution of humanity. In other words, the evolution of machines relies on the human intervention for reproduction, and the evolution of human epistemology is shaped by the emergence of machines. Pre-empting themes of posthumanism over 150 y…
Collective obituary for James D. Marshall (1937–2021)
Eulogy for Jim Marshall (read at the funeral)Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityMy deepest condolences to Pepe, Dom and Marcus and to Jim’s grandchildren. Tina and I spent a lot of time at t
Idealist Individualism or Indigenous Cosmology; Finding Entanglement across Species and Strata
Science and technology have been associated with modern Enlightenment, in a manner that elevated the rational mind over emotions and the body, a separation of the subjective mind from the object of observation, universal categories, objective observation, and linear causality. These assumptions, consolidated by Descartes and then Kant, have underpinned the philosophies of science, economics, policy, and political theory. They have shaped the mode…
Rewilding policy futures: Maori whakapapa and the ecology of the subject
The world is changing, but political and educational institutions appears to be stuck in the 19th century. Modern policy and education are both premised on an Enlightenment assumption of the human, rational, individual subject. Increasingly, elements of these philosophical premises are being interrogated. The critique emerges from the environmental interest in collapsing the dualism between subject and object, and reintegrating the human with/in …
Negentropy for the anthropocene; Stiegler, Maori and exosomatic memory
Exosomatic memory is a crucial phase in the evolution of humanity because it enables learning to take place across groups and generations rather than exclusively through lived experience or one on one transmission. Exosomatic memory is the attribution of knowledge to objects, such as art or writing, which allows epistemology to be transmitted beyond the individual to subsequent generations of people. Exosomatic memory is the key to the transmissi…
Decolonising Technological Futures: A dialogical tryptich between Te Haumoana White, Ruth Irwin, and Tegmark’s Artificial Intelligence
Economics, ecology, and a new eco-social settlement informing education
Economics, ecology, and a new eco-social settlement informing education." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(8), p. 834
Climate change and education
Understanding climate change is becoming an urgent requirement for those in education. The normative values of education have long been closely aligned with the global, modernised world. The industrial model has underpinned the hidden and overt curriculum. Increasingly though, a new eco-centric orientation to economics, technology, and social organisation is beginning to shape up the post-carbon world. Unless education is up to date with the issu…
Heidegger and Stiegler on failure and technology
Heidegger argues that modern technology is quantifiably different from all earlier periods because of a shift in ethos from in situ craftwork to globalised production and storage at the behest of consumerism. He argues that this shift in technology has fundamentally shaped our epistemology, and it is almost impossible to comprehend anything outside the technological enframing of knowledge. The exception is when something breaks down, and the faul…
Knowledge ecologies after postmodernity
The Royal Society claims we have already moved from the Holocene to the Anthropocene epoch. Debate rages about when this happened and what markers matter, but one layer of evidence is the ubiquitou
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Historicizing the Black Atlantic
How should historians conceptualize Africa’s place in U.S. foreign relations history? A decade ago this question would barely have registered on the pages of Diplomatic History. While Latin America organized U.S. internationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asia and the Middle East shaped Washington’s Cold War priorities, the so-called “dark continent” appeared to be on the very periphery of the United States’ official mi…
Ecological ethics in the context of climate change: Feminist and Indigenous Critique of Modernity
Climate change and philosophy: Transformational possibilities
Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Questioning Modernity 1. Climate Change, Civil Progress, and Rational Evolution, Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida, USA) 2. Nature in the Active Voice, Val Plumwood (Australian National University, Australia) 3. Climate Change and Nihilism: Living in the Zone of Nihilism, Ruth Irwin (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Part II: Transforming Global Politics 4. Transforming Worldviews to Cope with a C…
The neoliberal state, Environmental Pragmatism, and its discontents
The State, the market, and labour relations have been completely overestimated as a modus operandii of unchangeable stasis by the Neopragmatists. In their eagerness to accommodate to the overwhelming universalisation of the market as a metaphor for all kinds of interactions and communication, between individuals, between institutions, between classes, between peoples, between humanity and nature, Neopragmatists have forgotten the turn of the cent…
Autonomy, Agency and Education: He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
In this paper the authors take up James Marshall's work on the individual and autonomy. Their suggestion is that although the liberal notion of the autonomous individual might give us a standard of reference for the freedom of persons, the liberal tradition also circumscribes that freedom by prescribing it both as an attribute of persons and as a necessity for persons to exercise, in the form of choice, even though the range of choice is in fact …
Heidegger and Nietzsche; the Question of Value and Nihilism in relation to Education
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
The neoliberal state, Environmental Pragmatism, and its discontents
The State, the market, and labour relations have been completely overestimated as a modus operandii of unchangeable stasis by the Neopragmatists. In their eagerness to accommodate to the overwhelming universalisation of the market as a metaphor for all kinds of interactions and communication, between individuals, between institutions, between classes, between peoples, between humanity and nature, Neopragmatists have forgotten the turn of the cent…
Autonomy, Agency and Education: He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
In this paper the authors take up James Marshall's work on the individual and autonomy. Their suggestion is that although the liberal notion of the autonomous individual might give us a standard of reference for the freedom of persons, the liberal tradition also circumscribes that freedom by prescribing it both as an attribute of persons and as a necessity for persons to exercise, in the form of choice, even though the range of choice is in fact …
Decolonising Technological Futures: A dialogical tryptich between Te Haumoana White, Ruth Irwin, and Tegmark’s Artificial Intelligence
Negentropy for the anthropocene; Stiegler, Maori and exosomatic memory
Exosomatic memory is a crucial phase in the evolution of humanity because it enables learning to take place across groups and generations rather than exclusively through lived experience or one on one transmission. Exosomatic memory is the attribution of knowledge to objects, such as art or writing, which allows epistemology to be transmitted beyond the individual to subsequent generations of people. Exosomatic memory is the key to the transmissi…
Climate change and education
Understanding climate change is becoming an urgent requirement for those in education. The normative values of education have long been closely aligned with the global, modernised world. The industrial model has underpinned the hidden and overt curriculum. Increasingly though, a new eco-centric orientation to economics, technology, and social organisation is beginning to shape up the post-carbon world. Unless education is up to date with the issu…
Heidegger and Stiegler on failure and technology
Heidegger argues that modern technology is quantifiably different from all earlier periods because of a shift in ethos from in situ craftwork to globalised production and storage at the behest of consumerism. He argues that this shift in technology has fundamentally shaped our epistemology, and it is almost impossible to comprehend anything outside the technological enframing of knowledge. The exception is when something breaks down, and the faul…
Heidegger and Nietzsche; the Question of Value and Nihilism in relation to Education
Heidegger and Nietzsche; the Question of Value and Nihilism in relation to Education
Autonomy, Agency and Education: He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
In this paper the authors take up James Marshall's work on the individual and autonomy. Their suggestion is that although the liberal notion of the autonomous individual might give us a standard of reference for the freedom of persons, the liberal tradition also circumscribes that freedom by prescribing it both as an attribute of persons and as a necessity for persons to exercise, in the form of choice, even though the range of choice is in fact …
The neoliberal state, Environmental Pragmatism, and its discontents
The State, the market, and labour relations have been completely overestimated as a modus operandii of unchangeable stasis by the Neopragmatists. In their eagerness to accommodate to the overwhelming universalisation of the market as a metaphor for all kinds of interactions and communication, between individuals, between institutions, between classes, between peoples, between humanity and nature, Neopragmatists have forgotten the turn of the cent…
Climate change and philosophy: Transformational possibilities
Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Questioning Modernity 1. Climate Change, Civil Progress, and Rational Evolution, Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida, USA) 2. Nature in the Active Voice, Val Plumwood (Australian National University, Australia) 3. Climate Change and Nihilism: Living in the Zone of Nihilism, Ruth Irwin (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Part II: Transforming Global Politics 4. Transforming Worldviews to Cope with a C…
Ecological ethics in the context of climate change: Feminist and Indigenous Critique of Modernity
Historicizing the Black Atlantic
How should historians conceptualize Africa’s place in U.S. foreign relations history? A decade ago this question would barely have registered on the pages of Diplomatic History. While Latin America organized U.S. internationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asia and the Middle East shaped Washington’s Cold War priorities, the so-called “dark continent” appeared to be on the very periphery of the United States’ official mi…
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Knowledge ecologies after postmodernity
The Royal Society claims we have already moved from the Holocene to the Anthropocene epoch. Debate rages about when this happened and what markers matter, but one layer of evidence is the ubiquitou
Decolonising Technological Futures: A dialogical tryptich between Te Haumoana White, Ruth Irwin, and Tegmark’s Artificial Intelligence
Economics, ecology, and a new eco-social settlement informing education
Economics, ecology, and a new eco-social settlement informing education." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(8), p. 834
Climate change and education
Understanding climate change is becoming an urgent requirement for those in education. The normative values of education have long been closely aligned with the global, modernised world. The industrial model has underpinned the hidden and overt curriculum. Increasingly though, a new eco-centric orientation to economics, technology, and social organisation is beginning to shape up the post-carbon world. Unless education is up to date with the issu…
Heidegger and Stiegler on failure and technology
Heidegger argues that modern technology is quantifiably different from all earlier periods because of a shift in ethos from in situ craftwork to globalised production and storage at the behest of consumerism. He argues that this shift in technology has fundamentally shaped our epistemology, and it is almost impossible to comprehend anything outside the technological enframing of knowledge. The exception is when something breaks down, and the faul…
Rewilding policy futures: Maori whakapapa and the ecology of the subject
The world is changing, but political and educational institutions appears to be stuck in the 19th century. Modern policy and education are both premised on an Enlightenment assumption of the human, rational, individual subject. Increasingly, elements of these philosophical premises are being interrogated. The critique emerges from the environmental interest in collapsing the dualism between subject and object, and reintegrating the human with/in …
Negentropy for the anthropocene; Stiegler, Maori and exosomatic memory
Exosomatic memory is a crucial phase in the evolution of humanity because it enables learning to take place across groups and generations rather than exclusively through lived experience or one on one transmission. Exosomatic memory is the attribution of knowledge to objects, such as art or writing, which allows epistemology to be transmitted beyond the individual to subsequent generations of people. Exosomatic memory is the key to the transmissi…
Collective obituary for James D. Marshall (1937–2021)
Eulogy for Jim Marshall (read at the funeral)Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityMy deepest condolences to Pepe, Dom and Marcus and to Jim’s grandchildren. Tina and I spent a lot of time at t
Idealist Individualism or Indigenous Cosmology; Finding Entanglement across Species and Strata
Science and technology have been associated with modern Enlightenment, in a manner that elevated the rational mind over emotions and the body, a separation of the subjective mind from the object of observation, universal categories, objective observation, and linear causality. These assumptions, consolidated by Descartes and then Kant, have underpinned the philosophies of science, economics, policy, and political theory. They have shaped the mode…
Heidegger, the Metacrisis and the Enchantment of Schooling
Modern society is under the illusion that calculation and measurement amounts to control. Heidegger’s critique of the enchantment of modernity shows how the machinations of power are inhibiting the course of evolving change. People cannot reflect on the real failures of the many iterations of the polycrisis and learn from them. This failure to notice failure is at the core of the metacrisis. Modern society is under the illusion that progress as c…
Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the Future World to Come
Environmental education is never neutral; through what is emphasised or ignored, education shapes how learners understand their relationships with the more-than-human world. This editorial introduces the Special Issue Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the Future World to Come, situating environmental education within a planetary metacrisis produced by intersecting ecological, social, economic and epistemic failures. Drawing on critiques of col…
Stiegler and Butler on AI and the evolution of intelligence
Education is concerned with the production of intelligence. Is AI intelligent? and what are the implications for educating humanity? Samuel Butler makes the case that machinery emerges in co-relation with the evolution of humanity. In other words, the evolution of machines relies on the human intervention for reproduction, and the evolution of human epistemology is shaped by the emergence of machines. Pre-empting themes of posthumanism over 150 y…
Schooling and the enchantment of modernity
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Environmental ethics (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy of education (5 works)