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The oral eye is a metaphor for the dominance of global designer capitalism. It refers to the consumerism of a designer aesthetic by the ‘I’ of the neoliberalist subject, as well as the aural soundscapes that accompany the hegemony of the capturing attention through screen cultures. An attempt is made to articulate the historical emergence of such a synoptic machinic regime drawing on Badiou, Bellmer, Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, Ranci?re, Virilio, Ziarek, and ?i?ek to explore contemporary art (post-Situationism) and visual cultural education. jagodzinski develops the concept of an ‘avant-garde without authority,’ ‘self-refleXion’ and ‘in(design)’ to further the questions surrounding the posthuman as advanced by theorists such as Hansen, Stiegler and Ziarek’s ‘force’ of art.
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Vi sua l A rt a n d Educ at ion i n a n Er a of D e sig n e r Ca p i ta l i sm
Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation Series Editors: jan jagodzinski, University of Alberta Mark Bracher, Kent State University The purpose of this series is to develop and disseminate psychoanalytic knowledge that can help educators in their pursuit of three core functions of education: 1. facilitating student learning; 2. fostering students’ personal development; and 3. promoting prosocial attitudes, habits, and behaviors in students (i.e., attitudes opposed to violence, substance abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.). Psychoanalysis can help educators realize these aims of education by providing them with important insights into 1. the emotional and cognitive capacities that are necessary for students to be able to learn, develop, and engage in prosocial behavior; 2. the motivations that drive such learning, development, and behaviors; and 3. the motivations that produce antisocial behaviors as well as resistance to learning and development. Such understanding can enable educators to develop pedagogical strategies and techniques to help students overcome psychological impediments to learning and development, either by identifying and removing the impediments or by helping students develop the ability to overcome them. Moreover, by offering an understanding of the motivations that cause some of our most severe social problems—including crime, violence, substance abuse, prejudice, and inequality—together with knowledge of how such motivations can be altered, books in this series will contribute to the reduction and prevention of such problems, a task that education is increasingly being called upon to assume. Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation By Mark Bracher Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance: The Popular Holocaust and Social Change in a Post 9/11 World By Robert Samuels Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia By jan jagodzinski Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education By K. Daniel Cho New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism: Automodernity from Zizek to Lacalu By Robert Samuels Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism: Deconstructing the Oral Eye By jan jagodzinski
Visua l A rt a n d Educ at ion i n a n Er a of D e sig n e r Ca pi ta l i sm D e const ruc t i ng t h e O r a l Ey e
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VISUAL ART AND EDUCATION IN AN ERA OF DESIGNER CAPITALISM
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