CartPedagogy of Captivating Technologies Instructor: Loren Britton Date & Time: Saturdays, September 19, 26, October 3, 10 11 AM - 13:30 ET
DESCRIPTION: This Seminar will create a space for our shared online classroom by utilizing Paulo Freire’s The Pedagogy of the Oppressed and bell hook’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Acknowledging that there are as many people in the room as there are teachers, agreeing on a set of shared conditions for working collectively, and leaving room for invention and play will be the pedagogical infrastructures implemented in this Seminar. Simultaneously, we will read Ruha Benjamin’s edited text Captivating Technology from 2019 to engage with critical questions around socio-technical systems. The text deals with the physicality of carceral corrections that come with the technosolutionism of wanting to solve all problems through technology: What social groups are classified, corralled, coerced and capitalized upon so that others get a chance to tinker, experiment, design, and engineer the future? We will ask: To what end do we imagine? How can inventing new political, cultural, and social norms advance the practice of freedom? And, how might technoscience be reimagined towards more emancipatory ends? These readings will guide the participants to see how radical pedagogical strategies can rewire our social relations in the ever-growing technologically constructed spaces around us. We will ask: what kinds of technologies need to be built to make the present more emancipatory and collective? Together, we will set our guideposts to reset the classroom space expectations, engage with the queerness of technology’s production, and cherish forms of engagement that are assumed to be apolitical. This Seminar is an opportunity to slow down, focus on the possible, engage with the impossible and follow the edges of critical engagement to see what role technoscience has on formalizing the present and what role critical pedagogy has in undoing the stable and the normal.
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