Bloomsbury Academic Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology

Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technologypresents a series of dialogues between Peter McLaren, a founding figure of critical pedagogy, and Petar Jandric, a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections between critical pedagogy and information technology. The authors debate the postdigital condition, its wide social impacts, and its relationship to critical pedagogy and liberation theology, as part of a transdisciplinary effort to develop a new postdigital revolutionary consciousness in the service of humanity. Throughout the dialogues we see how McLaren's thinking on critical pedagogy and liberation theology have developed since the publication of Pedagogy of Insurrection, and how these developments play out in Jandric's theory of the postdigital condition. The book includes a foreword by Peter Hudis and an afterword by Michael A. Peters. Review "Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology welds together biography, treatise, and analysis in service of excavating the possibilities for human liberation under the staggeringly complex conditions of a technologically saturated, ecologically ruinous state of late capitalism. Wide ranging and lucid, Peter McLaren and Petar Jandric draw on decades of research, personal experience, and critical philosophy in order to offer thought-provoking insights and practical ways forward." --Gabriella Coleman, The Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, Canada"This book shows the importance of critical pedagogy and liberation theology as intellectual means of struggle against digital capitalism. An essential reading for anyone interested in the advancement of socialist humanism." --Christian Fuchs, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Westminster, United Kingdom"If there ever was an urgent need for revolutionary critical pedagogy, it is in today's dystopian world. These inspiring dialogues between two great minds and activists are full of pertinent insights useful to navigate ourselves in the early 21st century and, hopefully, to change our today's predicament. Not constrained by typical academic conventions, this book offers a much needed subversive manual for a future worth hoping - and fighting for." --Srecko Horvat, Philosopher and author of Poetry from the Future"Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technologyis reminiscent of what Paulo Freire called "talking books", which bring two powerful authors into a direct and fluidly exchange. As such, it exemplifies the very power of dialogue, illustrating the inextricable relationship of knowledge as both a social construction and collective endeavor. The result is a beautiful treatise that, although focused on Peter McLaren, allows the multiplicity of questions and responses to boldly weave a powerful story, from where essential political issues crucial to our liberation and the survival of the planet can emerge. In this sense, McLaren and Jandric convey a beautiful dance of ideas, woven intricately over the years from each man's consciousness, scholarship, and lived experiences as radical intellectuals, political freedom fighters, and transformative advocates in the world." --Antonia Darder, Endowed Chair of Ethics & Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, USA"In Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology, Peter McLaren and Petar Jandric have provided us with a pathbreaking volume traversing the realms of Marxist theory, critical pedagogy, and Liberation Theology combined with the most creative, far-reaching applications of critical social theory likely to be found anywhere. Those applications extend to the realms of modern technology, global capitalism, ecological crisis, U.S. imperialism, and of course the state of modern education in the United States and else