Chapter 6: For A Multiple-Armed Love: Ecopedagogy for a Posthuman Age

It is hard to know where to turn in an age increasingly constituted by sociological no exit and ecological endgame. To today’s globalization of highly integrated, quasi-fascist administrative complexes, those of us interested in an ecopedagogy for sustainability must attempt to imagine orders of planetary community. Yet, such community has not yet fully arrived in the concrete, and so we must look critically to alternative ideas and practices as possibly anticipatory of a qualitatively different form of society. The critical dimension is crucial to this work—for, since current ideas and practices are anticipatory at best of a more sustainable world, it means that they take place within limit situations that must themselves be named, reflected upon, and acted against in order to articulate and reaffirm contemporary liberatory tendencies.