101: Imagining Education Outside Capitalism w/ Dr. Nick Stock

Today we are joined by Dr. Nick Stock. Dr. Stock, a former English teacher, now serves as a researcher for the University of Birmingham. He has published various essays which focus on critiquing education by using philosophy typically seen outside of traditional pedagogy, such as Evangelion, Schools and Futures; Education after the end of the world. How can education be considered a hyperobject?; and Paradise Shall Remain Lost. Readdressing Deschooling through a Miltonian Lens.

Specifically, we invited Dr. Stock on to talk about his recently published work, The Weird, Eerie, Exit Pedagogy of Mark Fisher, which dives into the work of Fisher, who wrote Capitalist Realism, and connects it to pedagogy, something that it isn’t typically associated with.

This podcast covers:

• "Exit Pedagogy", connecting Mark Fisher's capitalist theories (and to an extent, Baudrillard's theories) to education
• "Hauntology" and reimagining a world without capitalism
• Critiques of liberatory and critical pedagogy and their connection to capitalism
• What it means to apply exit pedagogy to the classroom

GUESTS

Dr. Nick Stock, former English teacher and current researcher at the University of Birmingham, who focuses on an ironist perspective to education through postmodern, poststructural ideas.

RESOURCES

• The weird, eerie, exit pedagogy of Mark Fisher by Dr. Nick Stock
• Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
• Unpacking "Neoliberal" Schooling, Part 3: Progressive Education: Enter the Matrix by Chris McNutt