ABSTRACT
A few years ago, the author taught a course on education of “minority groups” in America. At least in the United States, there has been a great deal of discussion, some of it happening far beyond the university, of the relation between classroom practices and safety. The affective politics of the classroom are always already about a struggle over what the human is and how it is affectively policed. Bewildering education reorients the reader away from pedagogies that prop up Man via demands for inclusion, instead taking up what Weheliye calls the project of the “the abolition of Man”. In “Bewildering Education,” the author said that the task was to “open up love beyond the limits of the human”. The author wants to underscore that moves in two distinct but entwined directions. Bewildering education turns toward the situation, finding there all kinds of possibilities for reorienting the people and their relations.
