Trier Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis

2014
ISBN: 978-94-6209-800-8
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Foundations and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

The Situationist International (SI) was a Paris-based artistic and political avant-garde group that formed in 1957, went through three distinct phases during its existence, and dissolved in 1972.  In 1967, SI leader Guy Debord published his book The Society of the Spectacle, which presents his theory of how “the Spectacle” (i.e., the Capitalist system in its totality) works endlessly (though not always successfully) to transform people into spectators whose sole purposes are to consume commodities and to live de-politicized, passive, isolated, and contemplative lives.  To challenge and subvert “the Spectacle,” Debord and his SI associates theorized and practiced the anti-spectacular critical art they called “detournement,” which entails reusing existing artistic and mass-produced elements to create new combinations or ensembles.  As Debord wrote in 1956, detournement has the potential to be “a powerful cultural weapon in the service of real class struggle.”In this edited book, the authors contribute chapters about how they created their own detournements and used them as central audio-visual texts in critical projects that they designed and carried out in a variety of pedagogical situations.  Most of the projects involved preservice teachers in teacher education courses, and the anti-spectacular purposes include challenging Hollywood’s problematic representations of Native Americans,  subverting the racist stereotypes of Latin@s in a popular children’s book, and critiquing the neoliberal agenda of the charter school movement. This book offers readers detailed accounts of pedagogical projects that can serve as examples of the critical possibilities of detournement.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trier, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1. The Introduction to Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis; 2. A Detournement of Joe Clark’s Problematic “Motto” of Personal Agency in Lean on Me; 3. Juan Skippy: A Critical Detournement of Skippyjon Jones; 4. The Hollywood Indian Goes to School: Detournement as Praxis; 5. Detournement as Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Invitation to Crisis: Queering Gender in a Preservice Teacher Education Classroom; 6. In God’s Country: Deploying Detournement to Expose the Enmeshment of Christianity within the Spectacle of Capitalism; 7. Challenging Waiting for Superman through Detournement; 8. Detourning the Charterization of New Orleans Public Schools with Preservice Teachers; 9. Revisiting “Sordid Fantasies”: Using Detournement as an Approach to Qualitative Inquiry.