![]() ![]() There he spoke to us of the relevance of rereading it from our present. ![]() In 2013, in an Italian reissue of “Gender”, Giorgio Agamben told us that “perhaps only today the work of Ivan Illich is getting to know what Walter Ben- jamin called «the hour of legibility»”1. By charting some of the potential lineages, directions, contradictions, and challenges-and by proposing potential lines of educational praxis-we lay a basis for reinvigorated fields of inquiry that moves beyond the existing postdigital literature on the current pandemic. These are expansive ecosystems of humans, postdigital machines, nonhuman animals, minerals, objects, and more ecosystems that are overdetermined by new forms of ontological hierarchies and capitalism, imperialism, and settler-colonialism. While their roots most clearly emanate from the Freirean-inspired ecopedagogy movement, we conceptualize ecopedagogies instead as educational forms that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems from and to which we write and think. These are messianic-rather than prophetic-utopias that exist not as proclamations or programmes for a distant future but as potentialities immanent in the irreducible excess of the present. This paper charts some genealogies, challenges, and directions for experimenting with the utopic postdigital ecopedagogies demanded by our present (post)pandemic reality. Many seek a return to “normality.” But “normality” was the problem. To address the crises, the time to look beyond the genesis of the problems is now. What’s more, the counterproductivity of institutions beyond a certain intensification-a warning offered by Ivan Illich over 50 years ago-is now laid bare. Akin to providing oxygen keeping a dying beast alive, such “normality” serves to extend hegemonic control. When faced with these problems within capitalism, then capitalism and its neoliberal markets are assumed to provide solutions. Each of these situations developed within specific contexts and the contexts have themselves become normal. ![]() For many millions, the tragic dismantling of their material and social conditions exacerbates the yearning for something-“solutions,” “a return to normal,” “law and order,” “different priorities.” The Covid-19 pandemic (and the prospect of the next pandemic), the legacies of racism/racist policies, climate collapse, gender-related inequities, rising authoritarianism, environmental destruction, epistemic issues, social isolation and polarization and the interconnections of these issues touch every living being, threatening the continued existence of all. Stuchul and Madhu Suri Prakash to present this special issue titled, Conviviality for the Day After “Normal.” The end of an era of “normal”-given a confluence of crises-has arrived. When I interviewed “Professor Lockdown” Neil Ferguson for UnHerd on April 25, whose bleak projections were substantially responsible for the UK’s sudden pivot to lockdown the month before, he clearly thought Sweden was headed towards disaster.Guest Editors, Jeremy Hunsinger and Gustavo Esteva, join co-editors Dana L. In the eagerness to prove them wrong, even the New York Times dubbed Sweden “the world’s cautionary tale”. The UK, having initially supported the Swedish strategy, performed what the Swedes called its “180 degree U-turn” and imposed a lockdown after all. The infection quickly took hold in Stockholm (we now know this was because of huge numbers visiting the Italian Alps during the February half-term) many of the large care homes had outbreaks, and already by the end of April deaths per capita in Sweden dramatically exceeded neighbouring Norway and Denmark (although throughout remained less than the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium). New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĢ020 vision: state physician Anders Tegnell / TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty ImagesĪt first, the strategy seemed to be going badly. ![]()
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