With a subtitle like The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume II, one might think Tracks to Infinity, The Long Road to Justice is going to be excerpted old material, previously available in other formats. Nope, much of this is, if I remember correctly, new stuff, fresh, and clarifying [though I do recall reading the 'Critical Rage Pedagogy' (McLaren 2020a) article in a previous work, Pedagogy of Insurrection (McLaren 2015), and the chapter co-authored with Petar Jandrić, which forms the basis of a separate volume, McLaren and Jandrić's Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology (2020)]. So, what kind of prose is one likely to encounter in the book? This is, as the preface has it, a collection of 'raw materials for re-imaginings' (Ford and Alexander 2020: xv). Of course, if the world has to be imagined for the society within it to function, then it must be reimagined if society is to behave differently. And the society of the future will behave differently, just as the society of the present is behaving differently with Covid-19 and with the ravages of climate-change-inflamed disasters. The specific different behavior, at the time of this writing, will likely be one of various responses to the desolation spreading around us, with our mass death increasingly imminent if we are members of the differentially unprivileged working class. McLaren's goal is of course different. Since Tracks to Infinity is focused upon a 'utopic struggle for an otherwise to oppression and exploitation', as Ford and Alexander put it in the preface (2020: xvi), creating new re-imaginings in McLaren's vein acquires an urgency against this background.
