about
Jessie Beier (MEd, PhD) is a teacher, artist, researcher, philosopher and conjurer of weird pedagogies for unthought futures. Working at the intersection of art, philosophy and pedagogy, Beier’s research-creation practice experiments with developing ecological dissensus and heretical forms of pedagogy aimed at collective practices of negation, refusal and fabulation. She is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Concordia University (Montreal) and author of the book Pedagogy at the End of the World: Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational Futures (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).
research interests
Educational philosophy; weird pedagogies; curriculum theory; art + visual culture education; communication + media studies; popular culture (with a focus on reality TV); sound studies + sonic ecologies; immersive environments + extended reality; computation, artificial intelligence + machine learning; feminist science and technology studies + cyber/tech/xeno/feminist philosophy; climate justice + environmental social justice; critical disability studies; energy (in)humanities; future studies; ecological praxis in light of the so-called Anthropocene (and its others); critical animal studies; extinction studies; research-creation; philo-fiction, theory-fiction, non-philosophy + speculative praxis; and the interface of DeleuzoGuattarian philosophy with pedagogy.
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