Jan Jagodzinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 453154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Jagodzinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jagodzinski |
| SIGNATURE | JAGODZINSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4387-5419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Speculating on Speculative Fiction
FIELD OF EDUCATION attempts to create new spaces for thinking about imagining the endeavor of education otherwise.Its semantic register includes fantasy, science fiction, horror and derivatives like gothic dystopia, weird and post-apocalyptic fiction, ghost stories, and superhero tales.Flourishes of each are found in this special collection.Within Western literary-critical discourse, this form arises from a convergence of oppositional stands that…
Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2: Technology, Neurology, Quantum
This volume raises speculative questions regarding cosmotechnology and thinking about neuro-normativity in schools in the post-Anthropocene.
Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2: Technology, Neurology, Quantum
Racialized Negative Machines
Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 1: Childhood, Environment, Indigeneity
Thinking Bateson with Deleuze and Guattari: Response-ability of Artisans-Artists-Designers in the Anthropocene
In this essay I bring Gregory Bateson together with Deleuze and Guattari (primarily with the latter) to show their ecological compatibility, especially with Guattari’s ecosophy. I do this against the backdrop of the Anthropocene which presents us not only with a ‘climate’ of post-truth and political corruption, but also with the so-called climate crisis. In the context of these two broad examinations, I ask what can an artisan-artist-designer do …
Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-Wilding Education for a New Earth
Quantum Creativity: Afracting New Materialism in the Anthropocene
This essay engages the vicissitudes of new materialism at the quantum level, attempting to differentiate what I take to be fundamental differences in the theoretical positions of vitalist theories as developed by Karen Barad and Deleuze and Guattari in relation to the Anthropocene. I treat matter at the quantum level to differentiate conceptions of apparatus and assemblage. It is argued that one should not treat them under the same signifiers. Th…
The Necessity of an Immanent Pedagogy of In|difference in the Shadow of the Anthropocene
Life can be theorised actively (liveliness) or passively, or as entangled. What does this mean for pedagogy within the Anthropocene? This essay speculatively develops the concept immanent pedagogy of in|difference to explore such a question. This involves an engagement with various expressions of new materialisms, presenting a case as to how the passivity of an indifferent life needs to be recognised to mitigate the excessive claims of life from …
Schizoanalytic Ventures at the End of the World: Film, Video, Art, and Pedagogical Challenges
Explorations of Post-identity in Relation to Resistance: Why Difference Is Not Diversity
Pun(k) Deconstruction Experifigural Writings in Art&Art Education
In Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&Art Education and Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&Art Education, jan jagodzinski presents a series of essays covering a timespan of approximately ten years. These essays chart the theory and practice of art&art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity and poststructuralism concerning representation, identity politics, consumerism, postmodern architecture, ecology, pha…
Interrogating the Anthropocene
Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question
"This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bio…
Pun Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&art Education
Introduction: Interrogating the Anthropocene
The Question of Representation: The Case of Aids
After postmodernism in educational theory
Jan Jagodzinskplace globally as the divide between the 1% and the rest of the 99% in terms of resources and riches brought about by financial capitalism.Fascism is spreading.For education, this is the problem that needs to be addressed, which seems like an impossible task.Yet, without a transevaluation of capitalist I believe our 'species becoming' will end
The Challenges of Art Education in Designer Capitalism: Collaborative Practices in the (New Media) Arts
This article explores the challenges to art education in the twenty‐first century as art curricula around the world begin to change so as to meet the new emergent technological realities. It is argued that within a ‘control’ society like ours, where the economic system of capitalism dictates the direction of education along with its accompanying neoliberalist philosophy of the self, art educators are faced deciding how to cope and incorporate the…
Saints, Jesters and Nomads: The Anomalous Pedagogies of Lacan, Žižek, … Deleuze and Guattari
In this essay I bring together Lacan, Žižek, Deleuze and Guattari as mediators and intercessors for one another. The tensions that exist between them still continue to reverberate throughout the academic community. The intent is to query their pedagogies in what they are trying to ‘do’ within the context of capitalism in particular. I have called their pedagogies anomalous in keeping with their thrust of becoming other in their own particular way…
Environment and sustainability
The Prosthetic Space of Art: Taking the “Visual” Out of Visual Art
This article uses Charles Garoian's excellent study The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art as a jumping off point to confirm the strength of his thesis on "prosthetics of space and time." It does so by exploring the "visual" via both Derridean and Deleuzian philosophies in relation to the image of thought. It does this through a series of thought experiments and ends with a meditation on an "accelerated aesthetic" via a televised episode from the British…
Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism
This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place.
Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, 'art cannot be taught-it can however educate
This essay explores Badiou's writings on art and inaesthetics. It reviews his notion of the artistic event, comments on his 15 theses on contemporary art and examines his notion of inaesthetics. What follows is then applied to art and its education in terms of his search for a 'third position' that would challenge the extremes of capitalist design innovation and Romantic idealism that in his summation define the contemporary landscape. Keywords: …
Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia
This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens. Jagodzinski explores the generalized paranoia that pervades the landscape of television. Instead of dismissing paranoia as a neg
Video Game Cybersubjects, the Ethics of Violence and Addiction: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Women's Bodies of Performative Excess: Miming, Feigning, Refusing, and Rejecting the Phallus
In one of his late essays before his premature death of AIDS related diseases, the art critic Craig Owen observed that a certain calculated duplicity had come to be increasingly regarded as an indispensable tool for deconstruction. Both contemporary art and contemporary theory were rich in parody, the effects of trompe-l’oeil, dissimulation, and strategies of mimetic rivalry. The appropriated official discourse—the discourse of the Other—was mime…
The Prosthetic Space of Art: Taking the “Visual” Out of Visual Art
This article uses Charles Garoian's excellent study The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art as a jumping off point to confirm the strength of his thesis on "prosthetics of space and time." It does so by exploring the "visual" via both Derridean and Deleuzian philosophies in relation to the image of thought. It does this through a series of thought experiments and ends with a meditation on an "accelerated aesthetic" via a televised episode from the British…
Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, 'art cannot be taught-it can however educate
This essay explores Badiou's writings on art and inaesthetics. It reviews his notion of the artistic event, comments on his 15 theses on contemporary art and examines his notion of inaesthetics. What follows is then applied to art and its education in terms of his search for a 'third position' that would challenge the extremes of capitalist design innovation and Romantic idealism that in his summation define the contemporary landscape. Keywords: …
Is There an Ethics of Diabolical Evil? Sex Scandals, Family Romance, and Love in the School & Academy
The Truman Show: A Symptom of our Times? Or, a Cure for an Escape Attempt
The Perversity of (Real)ity TV: A Symptom of Our Times
One cannot help but be bombarded by the plethora of so-called "reality television" that defines the contemporary American television landscape—America's Funniest Home Videos, tabloid news, Hard Copy, A Current Affair, American Journal, America's Most Wanted, The Stories of the HighwayPatrol—as well as stunt videos of every conceivable extreme sport you can name—motorcycling, skiing, skateboarding, bungee jumping, parachuting. Then there are the n…
Reawakening Aesthetic Insight
"Comments on "Radical Response to a High-Tech World
The Poetics of Green Esthetics: Situating Green Criticism in the Postmodern Condition
i have always had the desire to rewrite evolutionary theory. i once suggested this to a colleague and was laughed at; but i think this is what fundamentally drives me; it defines my lack. The whole problematic surrounding "man" and the questioning of those discourses that have emerged to identify "him," which form the postmodernist background, intrigues me. This feeds a darkness, "out there," which can never be grasped. Imbedded in that darkness …
Kommissar Rex: The guarantor of the law
Kommissar Rex is a long-running detective series that takes place in the streets of Vienna and its surrounding areas, produced by the Austrian public television network (ORF). It began in 1994 and is now in its seventh season. We have attempted to analyze this series in terms of its significance for the political and social situation in which Austria finds itself today, with the influx of immigrants from the Balkan states and the continuing degra…
Women's Bodies of Performative Excess: Miming, Feigning, Refusing, and Rejecting the Phallus
In one of his late essays before his premature death of AIDS related diseases, the art critic Craig Owen observed that a certain calculated duplicity had come to be increasingly regarded as an indispensable tool for deconstruction. Both contemporary art and contemporary theory were rich in parody, the effects of trompe-l’oeil, dissimulation, and strategies of mimetic rivalry. The appropriated official discourse—the discourse of the Other—was mime…
The Perversity of (Real)ity TV: A Symptom of Our Times
One cannot help but be bombarded by the plethora of so-called "reality television" that defines the contemporary American television landscape—America's Funniest Home Videos, tabloid news, Hard Copy, A Current Affair, American Journal, America's Most Wanted, The Stories of the HighwayPatrol—as well as stunt videos of every conceivable extreme sport you can name—motorcycling, skiing, skateboarding, bungee jumping, parachuting. Then there are the n…
Youth Fantasies
Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer g
Identität im Cyberspace. Ein psychoanalytischer Zugang
Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media
Is Kronos Eating Our Children? Historical Fathers
Goya’s image of the Father (the god Kronos, also known as Saturn) devouring his children sits in the pit of one’s stomach like the stench of bad meat, ready to be vomited out when the full impact of his crime is registered (see figure 4.1). Only then does its foul smell come up and becomes stuck in our throat, choking us so that we can no longer bear its sight. We look away in disgust as the abjected substance is expelled and we feel cleansed—sti…
The Truman Show: A Symptom of our Times? Or, a Cure for an Escape Attempt
Is There an Ethics of Diabolical Evil? Sex Scandals, Family Romance, and Love in the School & Academy
Video Game Cybersubjects, the Ethics of Violence and Addiction: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Videogame Cybersubjects: Questioning the Myths of Violence and Identification (Implications for Educational Technologies)
In this article I explore the question of videogame cybersubjects and the myths of violence and identification made available by the new interactive media so as to vivify what is at stake when it comes to educational technologies. I introduce the concept of interpassivity to provide an aspect of technological interactivity that is missing in the current discussions. I use a Lacanian psychoanalytic paradigm as an antithetical research orientation …
Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia
This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens. Jagodzinski explores the generalized paranoia that pervades the landscape of television. Instead of dismissing paranoia as a neg
Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism
This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place.
Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, 'art cannot be taught-it can however educate
This essay explores Badiou's writings on art and inaesthetics. It reviews his notion of the artistic event, comments on his 15 theses on contemporary art and examines his notion of inaesthetics. What follows is then applied to art and its education in terms of his search for a 'third position' that would challenge the extremes of capitalist design innovation and Romantic idealism that in his summation define the contemporary landscape. Keywords: …
The Challenges of Art Education in Designer Capitalism: Collaborative Practices in the (New Media) Arts
This article explores the challenges to art education in the twenty‐first century as art curricula around the world begin to change so as to meet the new emergent technological realities. It is argued that within a ‘control’ society like ours, where the economic system of capitalism dictates the direction of education along with its accompanying neoliberalist philosophy of the self, art educators are faced deciding how to cope and incorporate the…
Saints, Jesters and Nomads: The Anomalous Pedagogies of Lacan, Žižek, … Deleuze and Guattari
In this essay I bring together Lacan, Žižek, Deleuze and Guattari as mediators and intercessors for one another. The tensions that exist between them still continue to reverberate throughout the academic community. The intent is to query their pedagogies in what they are trying to ‘do’ within the context of capitalism in particular. I have called their pedagogies anomalous in keeping with their thrust of becoming other in their own particular way…
Environment and sustainability
The Prosthetic Space of Art: Taking the “Visual” Out of Visual Art
This article uses Charles Garoian's excellent study The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art as a jumping off point to confirm the strength of his thesis on "prosthetics of space and time." It does so by exploring the "visual" via both Derridean and Deleuzian philosophies in relation to the image of thought. It does this through a series of thought experiments and ends with a meditation on an "accelerated aesthetic" via a televised episode from the British…
Pun(k) Deconstruction Experifigural Writings in Art&Art Education
In Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&Art Education and Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&Art Education, jan jagodzinski presents a series of essays covering a timespan of approximately ten years. These essays chart the theory and practice of art&art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity and poststructuralism concerning representation, identity politics, consumerism, postmodern architecture, ecology, pha…
Interrogating the Anthropocene
Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question
"This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bio…
Pun Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&art Education
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