Queer communist study: The sinthomostudier against the capital-debt-learning regime

Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

Hayes

2022

the European Green Deal has established the legislative framework for achieving the European Union's climate neutrality by 2050. The Explanatory Memorandum (2020) 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, decarbonising 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 economyone 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 good-paying jobs that provide workers with the choice to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers. (Biden for President, 2020)The website plays up the difference with Donald Trump's science denial and his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. It also announces that Biden will 'make a $2 trillion accelerated investment, with a plan to deploy those resources over his first term, setting us on an irreversible course to meet the ambitious climate progress that science demands' (Biden for President, 2020) with investments in infrastructure, auto-industry, transit, power sector, buildings, housing, innovation, agriculture, conservation, and environmental justice. The figure of two trillion is about double the notional level of investment in Europe.China's president Xi Jinping announced that the country aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 in his much-publicized video speech at the United Nations General

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biodigital Technologies and the Bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal?

Peters

Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

Hayes

2022

“…A few years ago we read OECD reports on the future of work in the age of digitalization and automation: we now read OECD reports on the biodigital future of work. A few years ago we analyzed 'data capitalism (Fuchs, 2019), algorithmic capitalism (Peters & Jandri c, 2018, p. 32), communicative capitalism (Dean, 2009;Ford, 2018), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2019), technoscientific capitalism (Birch & Muniesa 2020), high tech and low pay capitalism (Marcy, 2009)' (Jandri c & Ford, 2020); we now speak of bioinformational capitalism (Peters, 2012). These concepts and ideas do not arrive in a neat temporal progression and are far from isolated.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Peters

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Hayes

2021

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).

“…Depending on their focus, authors describe these changes using various names including data capitalism (Fuchs 2019 ), algorithmic capitalism (Peters and Jandrić 2018 : 32), communicative capitalism (Dean 2009 ; Ford 2018 ), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff 2019 ), technoscientific capitalism (Birch and Muniesa 2020 ), high-tech and low-pay capitalism (Marcy 2009 ), and more. Yet a common thread concerns the changing relationship of knowledge within capitalism and the ways that knowledge—even oppositional and critical knowledge—can be captured within the circuits of surplus production (Ford 2021 ).…”

Section: The Ecopedagogy Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures

Ford

2020

Postdigit Sci Educ

Self Cite

This paper charts some genealogies, challenges, and directions for experimenting with the utopic postdigital ecopedagogies demanded by our present (post)pandemic reality. These are messianic—rather than prophetic—utopias that exist not as proclamations or programmes for a distant future but as potentialities immanent in the irreducible excess of the present. While their roots most clearly emanate from the Freirean-inspired ecopedagogy movement, we conceptualize ecopedagogies instead as educational forms that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems from and to which we write and think. These are expansive ecosystems of humans, postdigital machines, nonhuman animals, minerals, objects, and more; ecosystems that are overdetermined by new forms of ontological hierarchies and capitalism, imperialism, and settler-colonialism. By charting some of the potential lineages, directions, contradictions, and challenges—and by proposing potential lines of educational praxis—we lay a basis for reinvigorated fields of inquiry that moves beyond the existing postdigital literature on the current pandemic.