Triangulating Freedom, Power, and Education: Learning Webs, Subjectivity, and Resistance

Abstract

Ivan Illich and Michel Foucault both began their careers with sweeping critiques of modern society; Illich focusing on the contradictory aspects of industrialization while Foucault analyzed disciplinary power. With similar points of origin, each set out on somewhat parallel paths to discover new forms of subjectivity and social organization. Introducing Hardt and Negri’s Multitude (2005) be help to position anarchic struggles in spaces of biopolitical power and the education of such resistance. By changing the individual’s relationship to and the structure in which learning occurs, an educational model that encourage alternative social realities and political forms can reinterpret freedom, education, and invention in radically anarchic ways. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. E-mail address: journal@transformativestudies.org Website: http://www.transformativestudies.org ©2011 by The Transformative Studies Institute. All rights reserved.]