Joff P N Bradley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joff P N Bradley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joff P N |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradley |
| SIGNATURE | BRADLEY J P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teikyo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1036-2246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Opening the Unthought
This article examines the philosophical concept of the unthought in Kostas Axelos and Gilles Deleuze. It challenges anthropocentric perspectives by exploring the inherent limitations of thought itself. In this light, the article aims to create a unique perspective for exploring the concept of the unthought. Specifically, this study attempts to strengthen Axelos’s significance in navigating Deleuze’s intellectual influences. It is argued that the …
Towards a Philosophy of Metacrisology
Here we develop the concept of metacrisology – a way of thinking shaped by crisis that examines the nature of crisis itself – by engaging with philosophers in the context of climate change, technological acceleration and symbolic misery. Beginning with a traumatic childhood experience of cosmic finitude, we reconceive crisis not merely as a path toward inevitable disaster but, in Kostas Axelos’s Heraclitean sense, as an improbable imperative that…
On the Wandering Cephalophore
The motivation for this experimental writing arose from encounters with sculptures during dérive exercises in various cities in 2022 and 2023. A profound experience in Argentina transformed my aesthetic sense into a political one ( aisthēsis, the mattering of sensation), leading me to explore the plastico-pedagogical uses of sculpture. I began to wonder how urban wandering can mould subjectivity and how the city can become a plastic canvas for ph…
Dérive or journey of knowledge in the Korean smart city
Building upon previous research on the therapeutic object, specifically the objet re-petit-ive abc, which draws from Lacan, Winnicott, and Guattari, I explore the generation, contribution, and erosion of knowledge in the so-called smart city. I will investigate how digital pedagogical objects, functioning as transitional objects, can serve as therapeutic purposes both within and outside institutional settings. I examine the notions of the dérive …
Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education III
The Real of Education
In this short piece I am going to reflect on my reaction to a commercial video and advertisement campaign by my university in Tokyo, Japan. The campaign 帝京生のリアル [The daily life of Teikyo students] ran in April 2023 ( www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/campus_for_life/photo_project ). The following is a translation of the Japanese voiceover from the cm which includes the voice of a concerned parent, the voice of a high school student, who is unsure about which co…
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia
Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality and exploitation? Is the new media landscape creating a dangerous distraction from the climate crisis? Connecting the work of critical postmedia studies to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of schizoanalysis, this book marks a bifurcatory shift in the radical theory on technology. A range of critical perspectives are explored by int…
Introduction to the special issue on dissent
Guattari and Stiegler on the therapeutic object
Here, I wish to pursue an analysis of the potential link between the thinkers Félix Guattari and Bernard Stiegler as I see in both thinkers a profound rumination of the question of therapeutic care and curation at the institutional level. My concern is with the institutional object and its deadly repetitions. By and through agitating the coefficient of transversality, my argument is that this might problematize the dyadic and sometimes dysfunctio…
What has happened to desire? The BwO of the Hikikomori
In this experimental piece of writing I want to think about the pedagogy of contact and the plight of the hikikomori or social recluse in Japan. I am interested in exploring how the hikikomori practices a kind of contactlessness or what I will call a deadly ipseity of desire. What does it mean to resist contact, to be without contact, to be without desire? What does it mean to risk contact, to risk being tactile with the other, to risk affirming …
Introduction to the special issue on Anti-Oedipus at 50
On the Struggle for Epokhē and the Crisis of the Savoirs
Reflecting on the mental ecologies of digital life and the crisis of spirit in the contemporary era, this article principally addresses the question of the possibility of epokhē (ἐποχή), the crisis of formation or self-cultivation (Bildung) and the possibility of a “third world,” which can be opened up by the phenomenological practice of epokhē. This will be undertaken idiosyncratically through a comparison between the thoughts of the British nov…
Towards a Noncompliant Pedagogy of the Image
The authors explore the noncompliant pedagogy of the image based on their video Autopoietic Veering: Schizo Socius of Tokyo and Vancouver (2021). It is not the kind of trendy modelized video abstract or kinetic presentation eagerly promoted by international publishers; it is a cross-cultural collaborative work intended to generate affirmative temporal ruptures of entropic habitual modes of seeing, memorizing, and thinking of human and nonhuman li…
A Pedagogy of the Parasite
Experiments in negentropic knowledge
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy
On the curation of negentropic forms of knowledge
My intention is to consider Bernard Stiegler’s concept of ‘journeys of knowledge’ (Stiegler, Nanjing lectures (2016–2019). Open Humanities Press, 2020) and to explore how one might rethink the knowledge-creating potentialities of information itself. This has become all the more apparent in the time of lockdowns, physical distancing during the pandemic but the primary purpose of the paper is to look at the distinction between knowledge/information…
On the prospects of Virilio’s pedagogy of the image
Devoted to the late Paul Virilio (1932–2018) and in the advent of debates surrounding the Anthropocene and in light of corresponding changes to conceptions of scale and image, this paper attempts to extrapolate a Virilian pedagogy of the image. It is Virilio’s work which remains timely and singularly fecund in this area and it is for this reason that it may help to shape a new pedagogy of scale and image. This may allow us to better grasp the dec…
Gadfly or praying mantis? Three philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests
Here presented are three singular, philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests which took place in 2019 and 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic. The writers hail from India, England
Bernard Stiegler, philosopher of reorientation
French philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s teacher, the great Jacques Derrida, when speaking of the nature of the life of Aristotle, questioned the need for biography and anecdote. Philosophy excludes b
Stiegler as philosopher of education
This special issue builds on a recent consideration of contemporary French philosophy and its enduring impact and application to the philosophy of education (Cole & Bradley, 2018). In that work, Be
On the organology of utopia
We are living in and beyond two massive changes in the world, both of which must be addressed by education, the caretaker of memory. First is the geological era of the Anthropocene—a crisis of nature and mankind, a fundamental geo-trauma. While climate change is a reality which we are belatedly just beginning to understand as we increasingly experience its changing weather patterns, the Anthropocene remains unknown or invisible for many. As a con…
Negen-u-topic becoming
At first glance a Russian anarchist’s revolutionary address to the youth of his day made in the late 19th century and the address to youth made by a contemporary French philosopher may appear to have little in common as their context and era are ostensibly very different. How would Petr Kropotkin’s address be understood in our time? Are Kropotkin’s concerns the same as those raised by Bernard Stiegler? Could Kropotkin speak of universal concerns,…
On the Philosophy of Trembling
This article offers several utopian/dystopian thought experiments to explore the sheer dread in thinking otherwise than the contemporary unworld as it is. It attempts this through a consideration of the horror of a world without a sun. It demonstrates this incapacity of thought to think beyond the utopos of the unworld as it is with reference to the 2017 BBC drama Hard Sun. It contrasts this essentially failed science fiction with the satirical o…
Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education
Stiegler Contra Robinson
This paper examines the affective disorders plaguing many young people and the problem of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in particular. It aims to define the limits of the critique of British educationalist Sir Ken Robinson in terms of his philosophy of 'creativity' through a consideration of the ideas of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, especially the notions of 'industrial temporal objects' and stupidity (bêtise). It makes the cas…
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy
On the curation of negentropic forms of knowledge
My intention is to consider Bernard Stiegler’s concept of ‘journeys of knowledge’ (Stiegler, Nanjing lectures (2016–2019). Open Humanities Press, 2020) and to explore how one might rethink the knowledge-creating potentialities of information itself. This has become all the more apparent in the time of lockdowns, physical distancing during the pandemic but the primary purpose of the paper is to look at the distinction between knowledge/information…
Gadfly or praying mantis? Three philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests
Here presented are three singular, philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests which took place in 2019 and 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic. The writers hail from India, England
Stiegler as philosopher of education
This special issue builds on a recent consideration of contemporary French philosophy and its enduring impact and application to the philosophy of education (Cole & Bradley, 2018). In that work, Be
Educational Philosophy and ‘New French Thought’
One could argue that the greatest challenge for the philosophy of education today is to stake its claim amidst the increasing prominence and competitive nature of evidence-based and profit-motivate
What has happened to desire? The BwO of the Hikikomori
In this experimental piece of writing I want to think about the pedagogy of contact and the plight of the hikikomori or social recluse in Japan. I am interested in exploring how the hikikomori practices a kind of contactlessness or what I will call a deadly ipseity of desire. What does it mean to resist contact, to be without contact, to be without desire? What does it mean to risk contact, to risk being tactile with the other, to risk affirming …
Experiments in negentropic knowledge
Bernard Stiegler, philosopher of reorientation
French philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s teacher, the great Jacques Derrida, when speaking of the nature of the life of Aristotle, questioned the need for biography and anecdote. Philosophy excludes b
Negen-u-topic becoming
At first glance a Russian anarchist’s revolutionary address to the youth of his day made in the late 19th century and the address to youth made by a contemporary French philosopher may appear to have little in common as their context and era are ostensibly very different. How would Petr Kropotkin’s address be understood in our time? Are Kropotkin’s concerns the same as those raised by Bernard Stiegler? Could Kropotkin speak of universal concerns,…
Dérive or journey of knowledge in the Korean smart city
Building upon previous research on the therapeutic object, specifically the objet re-petit-ive abc, which draws from Lacan, Winnicott, and Guattari, I explore the generation, contribution, and erosion of knowledge in the so-called smart city. I will investigate how digital pedagogical objects, functioning as transitional objects, can serve as therapeutic purposes both within and outside institutional settings. I examine the notions of the dérive …
Guattari and Stiegler on the therapeutic object
Here, I wish to pursue an analysis of the potential link between the thinkers Félix Guattari and Bernard Stiegler as I see in both thinkers a profound rumination of the question of therapeutic care and curation at the institutional level. My concern is with the institutional object and its deadly repetitions. By and through agitating the coefficient of transversality, my argument is that this might problematize the dyadic and sometimes dysfunctio…
On the Struggle for Epokhē and the Crisis of the Savoirs
Reflecting on the mental ecologies of digital life and the crisis of spirit in the contemporary era, this article principally addresses the question of the possibility of epokhē (ἐποχή), the crisis of formation or self-cultivation (Bildung) and the possibility of a “third world,” which can be opened up by the phenomenological practice of epokhē. This will be undertaken idiosyncratically through a comparison between the thoughts of the British nov…
On the organology of utopia
We are living in and beyond two massive changes in the world, both of which must be addressed by education, the caretaker of memory. First is the geological era of the Anthropocene—a crisis of nature and mankind, a fundamental geo-trauma. While climate change is a reality which we are belatedly just beginning to understand as we increasingly experience its changing weather patterns, the Anthropocene remains unknown or invisible for many. As a con…
On the Philosophy of Trembling
This article offers several utopian/dystopian thought experiments to explore the sheer dread in thinking otherwise than the contemporary unworld as it is. It attempts this through a consideration of the horror of a world without a sun. It demonstrates this incapacity of thought to think beyond the utopos of the unworld as it is with reference to the 2017 BBC drama Hard Sun. It contrasts this essentially failed science fiction with the satirical o…
Materialism and the Mediating Third
This article proffers a critical reading of multiliteracy pedagogy and a materialism of the multimodal and machinic. A critical stance is taken against the mesmerising modes of representation that run rampant across our ocular territories. The article assesses the dangers of fetishizing technologies. To this end, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) is read through a Guattarian theoretical prism to emphasise four chief points: (1) the role of the unc…
Materialism and the Mediating Third
This article proffers a critical reading of multiliteracy pedagogy and a materialism of the multimodal and machinic. A critical stance is taken against the mesmerising modes of representation that run rampant across our ocular territories. The article assesses the dangers of fetishizing technologies. To this end, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) is read through a Guattarian theoretical prism to emphasise four chief points: (1) the role of the unc…
The Eyes of the Fourth Person Singular
By tracing the genealogy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's outlandish notion of the fourth person singular and its appropriation in The Logic of Sense, several keys concepts in Deleuze's thought such as the nonpersonal and pre-individual subjectivity can be rendered clearer to the understanding. While there is poetic licence in the use of the term by Ferlinghetti, the fourth person singular is heuristic for exploring the notion of free indirect speech a…
A contribution to the schizoanalysis of indifference
Utilizing Félix Guattari’s ecosophical ideas, the media critiques of Bernard Stiegler and Franco Berardi and the neuro-philosophy of Catherine Malabou, I shall examine and describe the case of hikikomori or social recluse in Japan as a striking excrescent effect of the media’s collusion in engineering sad affects. With reference to post-Fukushima Japan, and through the prism of contemporary literature, manga, anime and film, this article tests th…
Stiegler Contra Robinson
This paper examines the affective disorders plaguing many young people and the problem of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in particular. It aims to define the limits of the critique of British educationalist Sir Ken Robinson in terms of his philosophy of 'creativity' through a consideration of the ideas of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, especially the notions of 'industrial temporal objects' and stupidity (bêtise). It makes the cas…
Educational Philosophy and ‘New French Thought’
One could argue that the greatest challenge for the philosophy of education today is to stake its claim amidst the increasing prominence and competitive nature of evidence-based and profit-motivate
Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education
On the Lumpen-Precariat-To-Come
As a prolegomena to writing a critique of contemporary capitalism which takes into account its semiotic, affective dimensions and which emphasises the notion of hyper-capitalism with Asian characteristics, and in considering the nature of the floating, heterogeneous population of the lumpenproletariat in the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century, the authors believe they remain faithful to Marx and the 11th thesis on Feuerbach. Bringing a uniqu…
Afterword
Cerebra
My Angelus Militans
Exhausted philosophy and islands-to-come
Drawing on an array of sources, from Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy (schizoanalysis) through to non-philosophy (cinema, literature), this paper concerns itself with the manifestation of the concepts of hope and despair in utopian thought and continental philosophy and the experience of hopelessness, despair and exhaustion in the contemporary moment. I aim to demonstrate such pressing concerns through a comparison of Japanese philosopher Kojin …
Educational ills and the (im)possibility of utopia
The idea for this special issue on utopia and educational philosophy flashed into the mind from a serendipitous confluence of historical events, the primary of which was the 500th anniversary of th
Stiegler as philosopher of education
This special issue builds on a recent consideration of contemporary French philosophy and its enduring impact and application to the philosophy of education (Cole & Bradley, 2018). In that work, Be
On the organology of utopia
We are living in and beyond two massive changes in the world, both of which must be addressed by education, the caretaker of memory. First is the geological era of the Anthropocene—a crisis of nature and mankind, a fundamental geo-trauma. While climate change is a reality which we are belatedly just beginning to understand as we increasingly experience its changing weather patterns, the Anthropocene remains unknown or invisible for many. As a con…
Negen-u-topic becoming
At first glance a Russian anarchist’s revolutionary address to the youth of his day made in the late 19th century and the address to youth made by a contemporary French philosopher may appear to have little in common as their context and era are ostensibly very different. How would Petr Kropotkin’s address be understood in our time? Are Kropotkin’s concerns the same as those raised by Bernard Stiegler? Could Kropotkin speak of universal concerns,…
On the Philosophy of Trembling
This article offers several utopian/dystopian thought experiments to explore the sheer dread in thinking otherwise than the contemporary unworld as it is. It attempts this through a consideration of the horror of a world without a sun. It demonstrates this incapacity of thought to think beyond the utopos of the unworld as it is with reference to the 2017 BBC drama Hard Sun. It contrasts this essentially failed science fiction with the satirical o…
On the prospects of Virilio’s pedagogy of the image
Devoted to the late Paul Virilio (1932–2018) and in the advent of debates surrounding the Anthropocene and in light of corresponding changes to conceptions of scale and image, this paper attempts to extrapolate a Virilian pedagogy of the image. It is Virilio’s work which remains timely and singularly fecund in this area and it is for this reason that it may help to shape a new pedagogy of scale and image. This may allow us to better grasp the dec…
Gadfly or praying mantis? Three philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests
Here presented are three singular, philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests which took place in 2019 and 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic. The writers hail from India, England
Bernard Stiegler, philosopher of reorientation
French philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s teacher, the great Jacques Derrida, when speaking of the nature of the life of Aristotle, questioned the need for biography and anecdote. Philosophy excludes b
Towards a Noncompliant Pedagogy of the Image
The authors explore the noncompliant pedagogy of the image based on their video Autopoietic Veering: Schizo Socius of Tokyo and Vancouver (2021). It is not the kind of trendy modelized video abstract or kinetic presentation eagerly promoted by international publishers; it is a cross-cultural collaborative work intended to generate affirmative temporal ruptures of entropic habitual modes of seeing, memorizing, and thinking of human and nonhuman li…
A Pedagogy of the Parasite
Experiments in negentropic knowledge
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy
On the curation of negentropic forms of knowledge
My intention is to consider Bernard Stiegler’s concept of ‘journeys of knowledge’ (Stiegler, Nanjing lectures (2016–2019). Open Humanities Press, 2020) and to explore how one might rethink the knowledge-creating potentialities of information itself. This has become all the more apparent in the time of lockdowns, physical distancing during the pandemic but the primary purpose of the paper is to look at the distinction between knowledge/information…
Introduction to the special issue on dissent
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