ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which aesthetics and knowledge, or the production of a knowing subject, intersect. It provides a discussion on the methods for the deployment of fierce pedagogies, focusing on social activities and encounters designed to provoke dialogue/dissensus and knowledge exchange. The discussion asks what we can learn from live art and research practice about this work of production. The chapter provides answers for the following questions: Can live practice deploy its aesthetic resources in order to emancipate learners, activate spectators and democratise knowledge production? and, specifically, what is the role of aesthetics, across and beyond artistic and academic endeavours, in the re/production of dissensual knowledges and subjects? The chapter addresses these questions by delineating a fierce pedagogy, which pays explicit attention to aesthetics, is queer, dialogic, dissensual and collaborative, manifests as struggle and contributes to new subjective becomings.
