School in the (im)possibility of future: Utopia and its territorialities

GRINBERG, SILVIA; MACHADO MERCEDES LIBERTAD

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Routledge

Lugar: Melbourne; Año: 2018

0013-1857

Utopiamakes itself heard as Raphael voices a critique of who we are and configuresthat no-where which, paradoxically, we want to reach. We look to Deleuze andGuattari when we say that that critique can be envisioned as resistance to thepresent. In the passage from no-where to now-here, we revisit the territoriesof utopia as critique of our times, as a way to approach the question of who weare and who we want to be. In our view, education still rests on the image of afuture that unfolds in the encounter with others. Education and itsneed/potential to enable tomorrows, to invent promises that look to places ofdesire, spaces that take shape as heterotopias. The notion of utopia isstrained at root because defined as a no-where. At school, it is bound to thepotential to create new possibilities and alternatives for life in the here andnow. In this article, we will grapple with the work we do in universityclassrooms and in educational institutions in the slums on the outskirts of thecity of Buenos Aires as a gateway from which to envision and to problematizethe world. From there, we will approach the voices where other possibilitiesare conquered and other spaces created on the basis of the unpredictable,voices rooted in education and the need for it that produce and producethemselves in the tensions of that (im)possibility. In sum, wording the worldas creation of worlds.