After School: Radical Experiments in Art, Study, and Collective Life
My current book project, After School, takes up the concept of "study" to think about experimental and collective sites of learning outside and on the edges of traditional institutions. Each of the ten chapters offers a possible alternative to “education,” turning to radical, non-traditional, and collaborative learning formations created within and outside schools and universities from the 1920s to the present around the world: labor schools, experimental colleges, ecofeminist collectives, junk art workshops, free universities, liberation schools, artistic happenings, consciousness-raising groups, and more-than-human learning formations. Throughout the book, I engage closely with a wide range of media, visual, and material culture sources created within and circulated between these counter-spaces: course catalogues, newsletters, photographs, posters, poetry, assemblages, experimental films, and other ephemera. By focusing on these out-of-sight pedagogical experiments, I bring to light generative tools for thinking about the purposes and possibilities of education and world making today.
(under contract with Princeton University Press)