Iskra Books, 01/01/Date: 2023. Paperback. NEW. 2023. Iskra Books ISBN 1088071694 9781088071694 [US]

ISBN10: 1088071694, ISBN13: 9781088071694, [publisher: Iskra Books] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Exploring the nexus between aesthetics, pedagogy, and politics illustrates the central role education plays in reproducing injustice and inhibiting confidence in revolutionary struggle. Demonstrating how capitalism and its attendant forms of oppression are not merely cognitive but perceptual, Derek R. Ford proposes that revolutionary education demands the production of aesthetic experiences through which we sense the possibility and actuality of alternative worlds. In response to this pressing task, Ford develops a praxis of teaching and a pedagogy of unlearning that, in our current conjuncture, creates conditions for encountering what Jennifer Ponce de León calls 'an other aesthetics.' Mapping contemporary capital as a perceptual ecology of structures, social relations, beliefs, and feelings, Teaching the Actuality of Revolution provides an extensive new set of concepts, practices, and readings for revolutionaries to better plan, enact, reflect on, and refine our organizing efforts. 'This book offers an expansive and inspiring examination of an issue crucially important to revolutionary practice and the struggles of all working class and oppressed people: how are humans' understanding and perception of the world forged through class struggle In it, Derek Ford brilliantly illuminates key insights of Marx ...
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