101: Imagining Education Outside Capitalism w/ Dr. Nick Stock

<p>Today we are joined by Dr. Nick Stock. Dr. Stock, a former English teacher, now serves as a researcher for the University of Birmingham. He has published various essays which focus on critiquing education by using philosophy typically seen outside of traditional pedagogy, such as <em>Evangelion, Schools and Futures</em>;<em> Education after the end of the world. How can education be considered a hyperobject?</em>; and <em>Paradise Shall Remain Lost. Readdressing Deschooling through a Miltonian Lens</em>.</p><br><p>Specifically, we invited Dr. Stock on to talk about his recently published work, <em>The Weird, Eerie, Exit Pedagogy of Mark Fisher</em>, which dives into the work of Fisher, who wrote Capitalist Realism, and connects it to pedagogy, something that it isn’t typically associated with.</p><br><p>This podcast covers:</p><ul><li>"Exit Pedagogy", connecting Mark Fisher's capitalist theories (and to an extent, Baudrillard's theories) to education</li><li>"Hauntology" and reimagining a world without capitalism</li><li>Critiques of liberatory and critical pedagogy and their connection to capitalism</li><li>What it means to apply exit pedagogy to the classroom</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>GUESTS</h3><p><strong>Dr. Nick Stock</strong>, former English teacher and current researcher at the University of Birmingham, who focuses on an ironist perspective to education through postmodern, poststructural ideas.</p><p><br></p><h3>RESOURCES</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681366.2021.1949384?tab=permissions&amp;scroll=top" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The weird, eerie, exit pedagogy of Mark Fisher</a> by Dr. Nick Stock</li><li><a href="https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Capitalist Realism</a> by Mark Fisher</li><li><a href="https://writing.humanrestorationproject.org/progressive-education-enter-the-matrix/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unpacking "Neoliberal" Schooling, Part 3: Progr