'Democratic Entanglements Across Spacetime' with Dr Edda Sant and Dr Jonas Thiel

Description

This paper comprises two parts. In part 1, we will revisit our recent 2024 article in Educational Philosophy and Theory. Here, we explored democracy as intra-action. Following the structure of our article, we will begin by reexamining Dewey’s famous sentence that ‘democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living’. We then diffract this sentence through Laclau’s conflictual understanding of democracy and Barad’s agential realist notion of intra-action. Last, we revisit our three suggested educational consequences of these diffractions: (a) “democracy and education could be understood as emerging together involving entanglements that cut across micro-macro levels of scale”; (b) “democratic processes always contain exclusions carrying risks for educators” and (c) “‘living’ needs to trouble the well-worn human/non-human binary and consider wider natural cultural phenomena”. This builds the basis of Part 2. Here, we tentatively outline further posthuman material-discursive developments and their implications for democracy and democratic education.

Period	12 Feb 2025
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International