The Iconoclast in the Classroom

Life as an Untotalizable Enigma

Life as an Untotalizable Enigma: The Lame Ontology of Greek MythologyWith Carlos A. Segovia A two-session seminar 🗓 2 SUNDAYS, OCTOBER 5 & 12, 2025.⏰ 11 AM-1 PM Eastern US Time. See time zone converter if you’re in a different location to make sure you get the time right.🔗 A Zoom link will be provided on registration.💰Three options (registration at bottom of this page.):(i) $75 for…

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September 5, 2025

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July 15, 2025

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The Perverse and the Generic

By Glenn Wallis. The Perverse Based on my personal observation, I think it’s generally fair to characterize the student-professor relationship in higher education as: perverted. I mean this in the sense of twisted, contorted, abnormal, corrupted. Picture an image in a hall of mirrors. That grotesque figure captures that of the generic person mutated into the institutional role-player. So,…

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February 1, 2024

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Education, pedagogy, Radical Education Theory, students, teachers, teaching

How to Love Your Students

By Glenn Wallis. Let’s create some contrast and tension at the outset and first say how not to love your students. Or, put otherwise, let’s say: How to Hate Your Students Hate: from Proto-Germanic hatis, to treat with hostility. That’s easy: lecture; grade; assign papers; offer the scantiest of feedback on assignments; break down the student’s “performance” into…

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February 1, 2024

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Education, learning, pedagogy, Radical Education Theory, students, teachers, teaching, University

Education Should Not Be Neutral

By João França. Sometimes it seems like we can only talk about education in the positive, but Henry Giroux also gives a name to what we want to leave behind, and for that reason he talks about the “pedagogies of repression.” “Education is not just about empowering people, the practice of freedom, it’s also in some ways…

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July 5, 2019

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Education, learning, pedagogy, Radical Education Theory, teachers, teaching

Rogue Scholars

By Joshua Ramey & Cleo Kearns Joshua Ramey: It seems to me that the situation we are in, as educators, is that like most people we are having a terrible time taking care of ourselves and taking care of each other, in really really basic ways. The “crisis” of higher education is not really a…

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April 12, 2019

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Education, educational-research, history, philosophy, teachers

Against Dullness

By Camelia Elias. Camelia Elias is a renowned Tarot card reader and author of numerous books on cartomancy, hermeticism, mysticism, gnosticism, and esotericism. Born is Romania, she has spent her career (until recently: see below) in Danish universities as a professor of American Studies. As an academic, she authored numerous works on literary theory, poetry…

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November 21, 2018

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college, Education, news, para-academic, Tarot, teaching, University

Assistant Professor in the #Humanities

By Clelia O. Rodríguez. DESCRIPTION I, as a woman of color, am seeking for the opportunity to teach under the umbrella of the Humanities, broadly speaking. I am a promiscuous individual so preferably non-tenure track solicitors will be considered first. The idea of “for life” commitment is bad for my emotional health without having the…

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November 8, 2018

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Education, Humanities, learning, news, Radical Education Theory, teachers, teaching

Anarchism, Education, and the Road to Peace

By Colman McCarthy. Colman McCarthy is a former Washington Post columnist. He has taught courses in peace studies for over twenty years at numerous colleges and high schools. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Readers Digest, and the Catholic Worker.…

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August 30, 2018

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anarchism, capitalism, Education, history, pedagogy, politics, Radical Education Theory

Why RED, Why Now?

By E.D. The Radical Education Department organically grew out of our orchestrated direct action campaign, as Nova Resistance, against the over-funded and over-securitized lecture by racist eugenicist Charles Murray at Villanova University in the spring of 2017 (click here to read a recent post about this action). However, its roots, for some of us, stretch…

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July 10, 2018

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activism, anarchism, Education, history, news, politics, University