Teaching against the machine critical pedagogy in an era of artificial intelligence Alexander J. Means

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Means, Alexander J., 1977- author.

Series:

Critical directions in education, technology, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Educational applications--Moral and ethical aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"This book examines the entanglement of capitalism, technological acceleration and AI, and warns that they are eroding education as a means of collective intelligence.Alexander J. Means shows how our desires, dreams, emotions, and psychic life have become the target of optimizing drives and algorithmic manipulation aimed at extracting value from thought and time. He argues that this is leading to a disintegration of meaning, knowledge, and culture, allowing Fascism, fraud, racism, ecocide, and war to thrive in an environment of systemic nihilism and the collapse of memory into computation. He examines how education has become a brand word and how education is being reduced to training in compliance and suggests ways to stop this trend. Means draws on a range of theorists book including Franco Berardi, Alain Badiou, Byung-Hul Chan, Fredric Jameson and Achille Mbembe. The book represents a warning against a life of fundamentalism, money, consumption, and power and argues that education should, in contradiction to the current trends, be equipping young people and adults with the tools to live a life filled with meaning and purpose"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

AI thresholds : dreamwork of the machine

AI’s academic war regime

True life for the AI generation

Fascist futurism, AI, and apocalyptic time

Utopian AI

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections , viewed July 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Means, Alexander J., 1977- Teaching against the machine

ISBN:

9781350506817

1350506818

9781350506824

1350506826

9781350506831

1350506834

OCLC:

1592691113

Access Restriction:

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