Mario Di Paolantonio
Biographic Data
| ID | 766538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario Di Paolantonio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Paolantonio |
| SIGNATURE | DI PAOLANTONIO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1787-7576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Remains at The End: A Response to My Respondents…
Cultivating an Ethics of Attention in the Age of ChatGPT: Bearing With or Circumventing the Encounter “The Blank Page”
Upholding “the educational” in education: Schooling beyond learning and the market
This article argues that schooling’s driving purpose should be to educate . Given heightening global crises and the potential of education to respond, we agree with the spirit and focus of UNESCO’s (2021) A new social contract for education intervention. Education/schooling should be motivated by progressive, critical visions to contribute to more sustainable and just human and planetary futures. Embodied-affective-cognitive technologically-media…
Education and Democracy at The End: The Crisis of Sense
In this book, the author reckons with the future of education and democracy in a time of compounding planetary crises
The Ethical Force and Hermeneutical Impasses in Our Being with Each Other in Education Today: David Hansen’s Reimagining the Call to Teach: A Witness to Teachers and Teaching
Curating the forensic gaze in traumatic memorial sites: Recalibrating the sense of materiality in Santiago's Londres‐38
This paper focusses on the forensic work put on display at Londres-38, a building in Santiago Chile designated as a National Monument, which once functioned as a torture and extermination centre under Pinochet's dictatorship. Striving to avoid conventional memorial practices, or didactic strategies that would morbidly represent the past horror, Londres-38 curatorially opts for very few educational props, so that visitors can have a peculiarly dir…
Educating Our Nerves in Unnerving Times: Cinematic Innervation as a Collectivising Experience in Tyson Lewis’s Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education
Wonder, Guarding Against Thoughtlessness in Education
The Malaise of the Soul at Work: The Drive for Creativity, Self-Actualization, and Curiosity in Education
Franco “Bifo” Berardi tells us that the current transformation of every domain of social life into economy has led to “the subjugation of the soul to work processes.” There is a newfound love of work and, consequently, writes Berardi, “no desire, no vitality seems to exist anymore outside of the economic enterprise.” Concerned as it once was with “fostering the soul,” and concerned as it now (almost exclusively) is with preparing students for the…
Presenting the (Dictatorial) Past in Contemporary Argentina: Truth Forums and Arts of Dramatization
Drawing upon Isabelle Stengers’ notion of an ‘ecology of practices’ this article explores some of the divergent ways in which truths about the violence of Argentina’s last dictatorship period emerge in different forums. We consider how these forums deploy ‘arts of dramatization’, which is to say, the ways they stage questions about the violence of the last dictatorship period in order to propose, explore, confirm and sometimes refute ‘candidates …
The Cruel Optimism of Education and Education's Implication with ‘Passing-on’: The Cruel Optimism of Education
In this article I draw on Lauren Berlant's notion of ‘cruel optimism’ to identify and untangle how the prevailing sense of ‘optimism’ in education works against our common hope or collective striving for what is educational in education. In particular, I discuss how the ‘cruel optimism’ that invites individuals to constantly innovate and improve themselves through ever more learning leads ultimately to a sense of ‘presentism’, ‘privation’ and ‘lo…
Roger Simon as a Thinker of the Remnants: An Overview of a Way of Thinking the Present, Our Present
Interrupting commemoration: Thinking with art, thinking through the strictures of Argentina'sEspacio para lamemoria
Recently, a few buildings within the Espacio para la memoria in Buenos Aires have been designated as a UNESCO Centre where, amongst other educational activities, evidentiary materials of the past repression are to be stored and displayed. Another building in the complex houses a Community Centre operated by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where the mandate is to learn about and continue the revolutionary ideals of those disappeared during the r…
The HauntedNomos: Activist-Artists and the (Im)possible Politics of Memory in Transitional Argentina
The article considers the role that contemporary visual art and activist-artists have played in transitional Argentina, beginning from the premise that they might be understood as involved in the staging of a wide-ranging shift implied by the term transition. We have chosen three points of entry into this exploration, discussed in three sections: first, the debates around the future of the building Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buen…
A Memory of Justice as a Democratic Pedagogical Force
Tracking the Transitional Demand for Legal Recall: The Foreclosing and Promise of Law in Argentina
The article tracks the symbolic role that law plays in the varying phases of the transition to democracy in Argentina. It offers a descriptive and conceptual account of how the struggle for legal recall was structured against the force of containment wielded by the state. Focusing on the social demand that comes before Judge Cavallo’s 2001 ruling, which overturned the amnesty laws protecting the military from being prosecuted for past rights viol…
Argentina after the “Dirty War”: Reading the Limits of National Reconciliation
The HauntedNomos: Activist-Artists and the (Im)possible Politics of Memory in Transitional Argentina
The article considers the role that contemporary visual art and activist-artists have played in transitional Argentina, beginning from the premise that they might be understood as involved in the staging of a wide-ranging shift implied by the term transition. We have chosen three points of entry into this exploration, discussed in three sections: first, the debates around the future of the building Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buen…
The Cruel Optimism of Education and Education's Implication with ‘Passing-on’: The Cruel Optimism of Education
In this article I draw on Lauren Berlant's notion of ‘cruel optimism’ to identify and untangle how the prevailing sense of ‘optimism’ in education works against our common hope or collective striving for what is educational in education. In particular, I discuss how the ‘cruel optimism’ that invites individuals to constantly innovate and improve themselves through ever more learning leads ultimately to a sense of ‘presentism’, ‘privation’ and ‘lo…
Wonder, Guarding Against Thoughtlessness in Education
Roger Simon as a Thinker of the Remnants: An Overview of a Way of Thinking the Present, Our Present
The Malaise of the Soul at Work: The Drive for Creativity, Self-Actualization, and Curiosity in Education
Franco “Bifo” Berardi tells us that the current transformation of every domain of social life into economy has led to “the subjugation of the soul to work processes.” There is a newfound love of work and, consequently, writes Berardi, “no desire, no vitality seems to exist anymore outside of the economic enterprise.” Concerned as it once was with “fostering the soul,” and concerned as it now (almost exclusively) is with preparing students for the…
Presenting the (Dictatorial) Past in Contemporary Argentina: Truth Forums and Arts of Dramatization
Drawing upon Isabelle Stengers’ notion of an ‘ecology of practices’ this article explores some of the divergent ways in which truths about the violence of Argentina’s last dictatorship period emerge in different forums. We consider how these forums deploy ‘arts of dramatization’, which is to say, the ways they stage questions about the violence of the last dictatorship period in order to propose, explore, confirm and sometimes refute ‘candidates …
Tracking the Transitional Demand for Legal Recall: The Foreclosing and Promise of Law in Argentina
The article tracks the symbolic role that law plays in the varying phases of the transition to democracy in Argentina. It offers a descriptive and conceptual account of how the struggle for legal recall was structured against the force of containment wielded by the state. Focusing on the social demand that comes before Judge Cavallo’s 2001 ruling, which overturned the amnesty laws protecting the military from being prosecuted for past rights viol…
Educating Our Nerves in Unnerving Times: Cinematic Innervation as a Collectivising Experience in Tyson Lewis’s Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education
Interrupting commemoration: Thinking with art, thinking through the strictures of Argentina'sEspacio para lamemoria
Recently, a few buildings within the Espacio para la memoria in Buenos Aires have been designated as a UNESCO Centre where, amongst other educational activities, evidentiary materials of the past repression are to be stored and displayed. Another building in the complex houses a Community Centre operated by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where the mandate is to learn about and continue the revolutionary ideals of those disappeared during the r…
Argentina after the “Dirty War”: Reading the Limits of National Reconciliation
Argentina after the “Dirty War”: Reading the Limits of National Reconciliation
Tracking the Transitional Demand for Legal Recall: The Foreclosing and Promise of Law in Argentina
The article tracks the symbolic role that law plays in the varying phases of the transition to democracy in Argentina. It offers a descriptive and conceptual account of how the struggle for legal recall was structured against the force of containment wielded by the state. Focusing on the social demand that comes before Judge Cavallo’s 2001 ruling, which overturned the amnesty laws protecting the military from being prosecuted for past rights viol…
A Memory of Justice as a Democratic Pedagogical Force
The HauntedNomos: Activist-Artists and the (Im)possible Politics of Memory in Transitional Argentina
The article considers the role that contemporary visual art and activist-artists have played in transitional Argentina, beginning from the premise that they might be understood as involved in the staging of a wide-ranging shift implied by the term transition. We have chosen three points of entry into this exploration, discussed in three sections: first, the debates around the future of the building Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buen…
Interrupting commemoration: Thinking with art, thinking through the strictures of Argentina'sEspacio para lamemoria
Recently, a few buildings within the Espacio para la memoria in Buenos Aires have been designated as a UNESCO Centre where, amongst other educational activities, evidentiary materials of the past repression are to be stored and displayed. Another building in the complex houses a Community Centre operated by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where the mandate is to learn about and continue the revolutionary ideals of those disappeared during the r…
Roger Simon as a Thinker of the Remnants: An Overview of a Way of Thinking the Present, Our Present
The Cruel Optimism of Education and Education's Implication with ‘Passing-on’: The Cruel Optimism of Education
In this article I draw on Lauren Berlant's notion of ‘cruel optimism’ to identify and untangle how the prevailing sense of ‘optimism’ in education works against our common hope or collective striving for what is educational in education. In particular, I discuss how the ‘cruel optimism’ that invites individuals to constantly innovate and improve themselves through ever more learning leads ultimately to a sense of ‘presentism’, ‘privation’ and ‘lo…
Presenting the (Dictatorial) Past in Contemporary Argentina: Truth Forums and Arts of Dramatization
Drawing upon Isabelle Stengers’ notion of an ‘ecology of practices’ this article explores some of the divergent ways in which truths about the violence of Argentina’s last dictatorship period emerge in different forums. We consider how these forums deploy ‘arts of dramatization’, which is to say, the ways they stage questions about the violence of the last dictatorship period in order to propose, explore, confirm and sometimes refute ‘candidates …
Wonder, Guarding Against Thoughtlessness in Education
The Malaise of the Soul at Work: The Drive for Creativity, Self-Actualization, and Curiosity in Education
Franco “Bifo” Berardi tells us that the current transformation of every domain of social life into economy has led to “the subjugation of the soul to work processes.” There is a newfound love of work and, consequently, writes Berardi, “no desire, no vitality seems to exist anymore outside of the economic enterprise.” Concerned as it once was with “fostering the soul,” and concerned as it now (almost exclusively) is with preparing students for the…
Curating the forensic gaze in traumatic memorial sites: Recalibrating the sense of materiality in Santiago's Londres‐38
This paper focusses on the forensic work put on display at Londres-38, a building in Santiago Chile designated as a National Monument, which once functioned as a torture and extermination centre under Pinochet's dictatorship. Striving to avoid conventional memorial practices, or didactic strategies that would morbidly represent the past horror, Londres-38 curatorially opts for very few educational props, so that visitors can have a peculiarly dir…
Educating Our Nerves in Unnerving Times: Cinematic Innervation as a Collectivising Experience in Tyson Lewis’s Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education
Education and Democracy at The End: The Crisis of Sense
In this book, the author reckons with the future of education and democracy in a time of compounding planetary crises
The Ethical Force and Hermeneutical Impasses in Our Being with Each Other in Education Today: David Hansen’s Reimagining the Call to Teach: A Witness to Teachers and Teaching
Upholding “the educational” in education: Schooling beyond learning and the market
This article argues that schooling’s driving purpose should be to educate . Given heightening global crises and the potential of education to respond, we agree with the spirit and focus of UNESCO’s (2021) A new social contract for education intervention. Education/schooling should be motivated by progressive, critical visions to contribute to more sustainable and just human and planetary futures. Embodied-affective-cognitive technologically-media…
Cultivating an Ethics of Attention in the Age of ChatGPT: Bearing With or Circumventing the Encounter “The Blank Page”
What Remains at The End: A Response to My Respondents…
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