VOLUME 12(3) • 2024
Deep Unlearning in a Democratic Free School: How Parents and Staff Members Abandon Conventional Education Assumptions
ABSTRACT. This article aims to explore how the staff employed at, and parents of children enrolled in, a democratic free school in Germany came to step away from the norms of conventional education and embrace a radically different educational model. Democratic free schools are sites of self-directe..
Dissensus and Transversality in Indigenous Struggles: A Critical Ecosophical Analysis of the Defence of Ulayat Rights in Indonesia
ABSTRACT. This article examines the application of critical concepts from Félix Guattari’s ecosophy, particularly dissensus and transversality, in defence of the Ulayat rights of Indigenous communities in Indonesia. Dissensus serves as a resistance strategy against the homogenisation and exploitatio..
Transindividuality, Anger and Political Struggle: A Spinozian Case for Politically Adequate Rage
ABSTRACT. This article seeks to demonstrate the potential of anger when it is considered in its transindividual nature. First, I start with a brief account of Western anger to emphasise its insufficiency. Then, I explore the metaphysics and theory of the affects in Spinoza to argue that it is possib..
Inculcating Community Service-Oriented Values in Higher Education in Ghana
ABSTRACT. Universities in Ghana have been accused of being ideologically Eurocentric institutions located on African soil. They were embodied in European realities and constructs and continue to perpetuate them, usurping Indigenous worldviews and dislodging their inherent values. The prevailing dict..
The Plastic (Inside) Us
ABSTRACT. This conceptual, quotation-based writing project, drawing from journalists, scientists, academics, activists, artists and others, recycles textual fragments on the concept of plastic. Here, plastic is theorised as a conceptual category that contains nearly unlimited material types and appl..
The University as a Place of Possibilities: An Introduction to a Special Topic on Thinking with the Concept of ‘Slow Academia’
ABSTRACT. This special topic in Knowledge Cultures aimed to engage critically with the concept of ‘slow academia’ to explore possibilities for thinking the university differently beyond the binary of fastness and slowness. ‘Slow academia’ has usually been defined negatively as resistance to the acce..
‘Mati, Mati, My Boy, Mati Mati’: Using Slow Academia to Embed Indigenous Knowledges in Higher Education
ABSTRACT. Integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives and Knowledges in curricula is a priority for many Australian higher education institutions despite lacking clear strategies for enabling this process. Perceived barriers preventing academics and institutions from including Ind..
The Teaching of Philosophy for a Contemplative Mindset
ABSTRACT. My argument will propose that philosophy be taught in a way that develops the dialectic for a contemplative mindset. This paper challenges the assumption that teaching philosophical and religious ideas based solely on formal logic is sufficient to enhance a personal and transformative expe..
Navigating Contemporary Academia: Way-Finder Perspectives About S/pace, Charting Course and Creating Legacy
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we examine qualities of fast and slow academia, creatively interrogating the challenges and value of setting and reclaiming our own s/pace and course amid the turbulent waters of the postmodern academic landscape. Engaging experientially with metaphor and the methodology of ..