Postdigital Brave New World and Its Educational Implications

Mañero, Julia

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“…Speaking of methods, postdigital research requires a combination of traditional disciplinary methods and various interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and postdisciplinary approaches. Accepting that ‘my words and ideas in this article are not just mine: they are an amalgam of all encounters with colleagues, friends, and people known and unknown that have passed through my professional and personal life’ (Jandrić 2020 : 179; see also Mañero 2020 ), recent developments in the field focus to the political economy of knowledge making and dissemination practices including peer review and academic publishing. This focus is probably best exemplified in the dichotomy between knowledge capitalism and knowledge socialism.…”

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Futures Studies, Mobilities, and the Postdigital Condition: Contention or Complement

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This paper explores relationships between recent developments in the fields of mobilities, futures, and postdigital studies. The article covers six main themes: questions and their histories; definitions; research methods and ethics; the nature and ownership of knowing and learning; understandings of time, space, identity, community, and relationships; and political processes and political legitimacy. The article was written in three steps. In the first step, the leading author (John Traxler) has identified the relevant themes. In the second step, proponents of each position have freely responded to the themes (futures studies, Stuart Connor; postdigital theory, Sarah Hayes and Petar Jandrić; mobilities, John Traxler). In the third step, the responses have been collectively (re)mixed and edited, identifying complementary and conflicting concepts and ideas. The article was initiated a month before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it was completed over one and a half years later. Thusly, responses and analyses have included the pandemic experience without explicitly focusing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper concludes with drawing together contributions, seeking underlying commonalities and differences, and looking for trends, convergence, and change. Epistemically, the three positions discussed in this paper are far from commensurable. Yet they are compatible and complementary, in a postdigital dialogue, in a sense that they all need each others’ inputs on the road to a better understanding of our current condition, and the road to a better future.

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“…Today, we again need to anticipate the future and reinvent our theories and practices in and for the biodigital context. Under pandemic conditions, our work has been transformed by an increasing sense of global oneness and solidarity (Mañero, 2020;Suoranta, 2020), some environmental benefits such as a decrease in carbon emissions (Lewis, 2020), and also many losses from most obviously human lives, to the sorrows of living in a time of 'no touch' (Sapon-Shevin & SooHoo, 2020). Political responses to the pandemic vary from balanced approaches based on solidarity (Kerres, 2020) to the downright craziness of the Trump administration (McLaren, 2020), and we now see emerging initiatives such as the Global New Green Deal that may well herald a new green age that at last takes sustainability seriously.…”

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Biodigital technologies and the bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal?

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Jandrić

Hayes

2021

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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the European Green Deal has established the legislative framework for achieving the European Union's climate neutrality by 2050. The Explanatory Memorandum puts the objective in unambiguous terms:The European Green Deal Communication launched a new growth strategy for the EU that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, improving the quality of life of current and future generations, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. The European Green Deal reaffirms the Commission's ambition to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 (European Commission, 2020).The European Green Deal suggests that reaching the target requires coordinated investment in environmentally-friendly technologies, support for industrial innovation, cleaner public and private transport, energy-efficient buildings, decarbonizing the energy sector and 'working with international partners to improve global environmental standards' (European Commission, 2020).In the U.S. Joe Biden's election website supports 'the Biden plan to build a modern, sustainable infrastructure and an equitable clean energy future': At this moment of profound crisis, we have the opportunity to build a more resilient, sustainable economy one that will put the United States on an irreversible path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050. Joe Biden will seize that opportunity and, in the process, create millions of goodpaying jobs that provide workers with the choice to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers (Biden for President, 2020).

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“…The Covid-19 pandemic has turned some aspects of the healthcare narrative upside down in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, doctors and nurses have become heroes (Wagener, 2020); during early lockdowns, in countries such as Spain and Italy, people applauded them every evening from their balconies (Mañero, 2020). Individual responsibility for healthcare, which is the basis of its financialization, has been replaced by human (Sapon-Shevin & SooHoo, 2020) and (to a lesser extent) inter-species (O'Sullivan, 2020) solidarity.…”

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Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

Peters

Jandrić

2021

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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It's not surprising that the extent of the US's deficit financing is turning heads. President Biden's $1.9 trillion deficit stimulus package comes on top of Trump's stimulus of $2.35 trillion which doesn't include the Federal Reserve's estimated $4 trillion. The US Government has devoted over $6 trillion to banishing Covid-19 and economic recovery. These statistics dwarf anything in the past including the Great Depression and US participation in WWII. Calvin Woodward (2021) describes it as 'surreal economics' at warp speed. The only saving grace is that borrowing is cheap. Some critics with little understanding of the accumulated debt think that the current stimulus might see the US economy outpace China for the first time in 45 years (Chan, 2021).Although as Ceyhun Elgin et al. ( 2020) have demonstrated the US deficit financing and fiscal response to Covid-19 as a percentage of GDP is well below Japan, Luxemburg, Belgium, and Malta (all above 15%) and Austria, Qatar, Slovenia, Singapore and the Netherlands (between 10-15%). US debt held by the public as a share of GDP is about 107%. Andrew Van Damm (2020) suggests: 'This year, for the first time since World War II, the United States will owe more than its economy can produce in a given year, the nonpartisan committee estimates. That's expected to rise to 107 percent by 2025 and as high as 120 percent by 2030 … ' Elgin et al. (2020) have suggested that public health measures including 'closures, travel restrictions, and city lockdowns' have disrupted supply chains and led to lay-offs while monetary policies have increased liquidity to banks and included transfers to households, the unemployed and the public health system. They develop an Economic Stimulus Index (CESI) after a review of economic policies adopted by 166 countries as a response to Covid-19 pandemic showing significant correlations of for example, GDP per capita health expenditures with economic stimulus packages.The sheer size of the US's Covid-19 fiscal stimulus response indicates some qualms about the government underwriting of share markets still bubbling as though there is no problem indicating the extent to which these markets seem to have decoupled from the ongoing distress of civil society. Other economies have been concerned with preventing financial system risk while keeping an eye on the debt-to-GDP ratio. China, the only economy which grew in 2020, devoted an equivalent US trillion fighting the effects of the virus and Hong Kong, some $40 billion. Japan provided a trillion dollars in liquidity and four stimulus spending packages of over a couple of US trillion. The EU provided a raft of stimulus packages expanding its PEPP program to a total of $2.24 trillion while also increasing Central Bank liquidity. The world economy shrank by 3.5% and most governments around the world followed similar stimulus response packages with an accent of relief to households and the unemployed (Alpert, 2021). Cassim et al. (2020) of McKinsey & Company reported some $10 trillion rescue in first two months of ...

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Postdigital Brave New World and Its Educational Implications

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Futures Studies, Mobilities, and the Postdigital Condition: Contention or Complement

Futures Studies, Mobilities, and the Postdigital Condition: Contention or Complement

Biodigital technologies and the bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal?

Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

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