ABSTRACT
The discussions that unfold in the following chapters are informed by a series of theoretical assumptions about literacy, culture, and pedagogy. In particular, these discussions attempt to galvanize issues of desire in practices of literacy, culture and pedagogy. As such, the specific conceptualizations offered here locate these literacy practices as designs of and on desires, dreams, and longings as they relate to forms of participation in social visioning and transformation. This focus is not meant to reduce the complex workings of the multiple dimensions of the practices of literacy, culture, and pedagogy; rather, working with such multifaceted complexities shores up the centrality of desire within radical pedagogies of literacy and culture. This chapter traces these interdices: the intricacies of desire with/in social dreams of difference—affective investments in social change.
