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Postdigital cross border reflections on critical utopia

izvorni znanstveni rad

izvorni znanstveni rad

Postdigital cross border reflections on critical utopia

Vrsta prilog u časopisu
Tip izvorni znanstveni rad
Godina 2020
Časopis Educational philosophy and theory
Volumen 52
Svesčić 14
Stranice str. 1470-1482
DOI 10.1080/00131857.2020.1731687
ISSN 0013-1857
EISSN 1469-5812
Status objavljeno

Sažetak

Critical pedagogy is in crisis. To address this crisis, this paper reinvents Paulo Freire’s concept of utopia in and for our age of the Anthropocene. Understood as a system, postdigital critical utopia provides us with normative foundations and returns agency from invisible data and algorithms to human beings. Understood as a process, postdigital critical utopia unmasks the myth of neutrality and adds an important element of myth, religion, ritual, and faith. Understood as an orientation, postdigital critical utopia needs to be balanced by dystopia, integrate environmental considerations, and act with a combination of epistemical curiosity and hope. Theoretical and practical attempts at introducing advanced technology to reimagine new utopias now take place in media theory, hacking, activism, and small pockets of the academia. To transcend its own crisis and remain relevant, contemporary critical pedagogy movement must urgently join these attempts. However, catching up with technological development is only the tip of a much larger iceberg. In order to take the lead in processes of modernization, critical pedagogy movement needs to actively develop utopian visions and techno-administrative systems which may support these visions.

Ključne riječi

critical pedagogy, postdigital, utopia, Anthropocene, reinvention, praxis, platform, blockchain