Educational Encounters and Whatever Singularity (the Lovable)

Abstract

In the previous chapters, we have developed particular understandings of educational encounters on the grounds of their distinctiveness, meaning, encounters are specific identifiable actions. So, educational encounters offer the promise of mutual action, ethical friendships, autonomous and free engagements, deliberative iterations, and critical praxis. Agamben offers a different take on educational encounters—that is, not every action is always in the intelligence of something, or this or that quality or essence. In this chapter, we use Agamben’s idea of ‘whatever’ in order to look at educational encounters differently, more specifically, in relation to ‘whatever being’.