Flashpoint Epistemology

Contemporary platitudes regarding interconnectedness abound. From connectography to the network society, from appeals to forces such as qi, prana and power to ‘stress contagion’ between teachers and students, from the legacies of colonialism to artificial intelligence, we are encouraged to understand ourselves as embedded, interconnected, in circuits, matrices, systems and fields.

The role of technology in mediating and producing such new sensibilities, potentials, and issues, and in cutting off other possibilities, is integral to today’s versions of interconnection. Debates over interconnection, however, can slide over the flashpoints that emerge, reshape, and reformulate issues across geopolitical regions, cosmologies, timespaces, species, institutions and more. This series considers these flashpoints – moments of seeming irresolvabiity generated within cross-philosophical clashes, connections, contacts and negotiations - as urgent sites of study in the Now and for rethinking educational futures.

The series is dedicated to analysing flashpoints within educational settings that are mediated by or involve technological inventions.