words + publications
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books
2024. Sound Research for Troubling Times: Hope in Crisis. Co-edited w/ Owen Chapman. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2024. Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.), w/ The E.E.R.K. Collective. New York: Fordham University Press.
2023. Pedagogy at the end of the world: Weird pedagogies for unthought educational futures. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2022. Ahuman pedagogy: Multidisciplinary perspectives for education in the Anthropocene. w/ j. & jagodzinski, j. (Eds.). 2022. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
articles + book chapters
2025 (Forthcoming). Mixtaping. In L. Guilmette & A. S. Jaarsma (Eds.), Feminist making, doing, & sensing. Duke University Press.
2025 (Forthcoming). w/ Jose Cortes & Veronica Mockler. Extreme frustrations: A-positioning art education’s futures. In N. Varas-Díaz & D. Nevárez Araújo (Eds.), Extremity and the future: Imagining lives to come. Lexington Books.
2025 (Forthcoming). w/ Sarah Bélanger-Martel, Jihane Mossalim & Natalie Pavlik. Learning machines: Rewiring AI’s pedagogical fabulations. In N. Ng-A-Fook & P. Phillips (Eds.), Rewiring for artificial intelligence: Education, contemporary issues, and futurities. Information Age Publishing.
2025 (Forthcoming). w/ Remy Bocquillon. Underground atmospheres: Thinking-with subterranean sounds. In M. Unger (Ed.), Sonic atmospheres: Creation and control in sounding milieus. Routledge.
2025 (In Press). w/ Jason Wallin. Fungal fictions: Or, what does fungi teach? In A. Sezen-Barrie & S. Tolbert (Eds.), The handbook of climate change education: Research, policy, and practice. Palgrave MacMillan.
2024. w/ Owen Chapman. Introduction. In j. beier & O. Chapman (Eds.), Sound research for troubling times: Hope in crisis (pp. 1–13). Palgrave MacMillan.
2024. w/ Leila Abdul-Rauf, Dan G. Butler, Owen Chapman & Vivek Venkatesh. Nothing, but hope: A conversation. In j. beier & O. Chapman (Eds.), Sound research for troubling times: Hope in crisis (pp. 197–219). Palgrave MacMillan.
2024. Weird horizons: Sound research at the sonic brink. In j. beier & O. Chapman (Eds.), Sound research for troubling times: Hope in crisis (pp. 221–247). Palgrave MacMillan.
2024. De-Extinction. In C. Taylor (Ed.), The Routledge companion to gender and animals. London/New York: Routledge.
2023. No going back: Countering de-extinction, un-fixing the future [Special Issue on Extinction]. Animal Studies Journal, 12(2).
2023. Walking on sunshine. w/ Jason Wallin. In B. Herzogenrath (Ed.), New perspectives on academic writing: The thing that wouldn’t die. New York: Bloomsbury.
2022. “Against” education: A roundtable on anarchy and abolition. w/ Andrew Culp, Vicky Osterweil and Jose Rosales. In J. Beier & j. jagodzinski (Eds.), Ahuman pedagogy: Multidisciplinary perspectives for education in the Anthropocene. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2022. Ahuman manifestations: When there is no outside (or, a long, good sigh). In J. Beier & j. jagodzinski (Eds.), Ahuman pedagogy: Multidisciplinary perspectives for education in the Anthropocene. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2022. Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. Contributer to After Oil Collective. (A. Vemuri & D. Barney, Eds.). Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
2021. Tracing a black hole: Probing cosmic darkness in Anthropocenic times. In J. Bazzul, M.F.G. Wallace, M. Higgins & S. Tolbert (Eds.)., Science x Education x Anthropocene. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2021. Art, ecology, and the politics of form: A panel revisited. w/ Loveless, N., Yang, A.S., Bolender, K., Donner, C., Smallwood, S., Olson, L. In C. Miya, O. Rossier & G. Rockwell (Eds.), Right research: Modelling sustainable research practices in the Anthropocene. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
2020. Pedagogy of the Negative: Pedagogical Heresy for ‘The End Times.’ w/ Jason Wallin. Oraxiom: A Journal of Non-Philosophy.
2019. Close encounters of the pedagogical kind: Science-fictioning a curriculum-to-come. In T. Strong-Wilson, C. Ehret, D. Lewkowich & S. Chang-Kredl (Eds.), Provoking Curriculum Encounters: New Engagements with Curriculum Theory. London: Routledge.
2018. Dispatch from the future: Science-fictioning (in) the Anthropocene. In j. jagodzinski (Ed), Interrogating the Anthropocene: The Future in Question. London/New York: Palgrave McMillan.
2017. Beyond belief: Visionary cinema, becoming imperceptible and pedagogical resistance. w/ Jason Wallin. In C. Naughton, G. Biesta, & D.R. Cole (Eds.), Art, Artists and Pedagogy: Philosophy and the Arts in Education. London: Routledge.
2017. The future is cancelled: From Melancholia to belief. In j. jagodzinski (Ed.), The precarious future of education: Risk and uncertainty in ecology, curriculum, learning, and technology. London/New York: Palgrave McMillan.
2017. Sound without organs: Inhuman refrains & the speculative potential of a cosmos-without-us. w/ Jason Wallin. In B. Herzogenrath (Ed.), Sound Thinking. New York: Bloomsbury.
2016. The disappeared future of arts-based research, Pts. I-VI: Towards a reality-without- givenness. w/ Jason Wallin. In j. jagodzinski (Ed.), What is Art Education? Essays After Deleuze and Guattari. London/ New York: Palgrave McMillan.
2014. Review of the book Surviving economic crises through education, by D. Cole (Ed.)]. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 59(4), 693-697.
2013. Dis-organ-izing the subject: Thinking with sound. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 9(2), 23-25.
2012. Visual literacy and the untimely transmogrification of the problem [Special issue]. Visual Arts Research, 39(1), 35-51.
recent presentations + workshops
Beier, J. L. (2026, March 12). Beyond Wild, Beyond Exhausted: On Weird Pedagogy and Co-Composing Conditions for Nonfascist Pedagogical Life [Invited Keynote Talk}. Sociology & Anthropology Graduate Students Association (SAGSA), Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Beier, J. L. (2025, October 22). Tender circuits: Scores for artificial intimacies [workshop]. Karlsruhe University, Department of Education, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Beier, J. L. (2025, October 21). Artificial intimacies: Figuring care in the age of AI [Invited lecture]. Care Research Lab (CRL), University of Cologne & University of Education Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Beier, J. L. & Brault, A. (2025, June 16). Collective musicking: Toward hope/less horizons and horizon/less hopes [Workshop]. C-Change Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Beier, J., Cortés, J., & Mockler, V. (2024, Sept 26). A-Positioning Project Screening + Discussion [video screening & discussion], Art Education Graduate Studio (EV5.825), Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
Beier, J., Cortés, J., & Mockler, V. (2024, June 29). A-Positional Coordinations: Putting ArtxEducation’s Frustrations to the Test [workshop & video installation], 2024 CSEA/SCÉA National Conference: Prepositioning, Propositioning, and Positioning Art-Education, Halifax, NS.
Beier, J., & others. (2024, May 27). Cosmic Horror: Artist Panel [panel discussion], The Problem of the Moon, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB.
Beier, J., Simpson, M., & Mookerjea, S. (2024, May 14). Energy Emergency Repair Kit [panel presentation], Petrocultures 2024: Oil Cities and Post-Oil Cities, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Beier, J., & Simpson, M. (2024, May 14). Energy Mediacy [conference presentation], Panel on Necropetroculture and its Hauntings, Petrocultures 2024: Oil Cities and Post-Oil Cities, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Beier, J., & Chapman, O. (2024, Mar 9). Messaging the Future: Lathe-Cut Records as Time Travelling Device [conference workshop], philoSOPHIA 2024: Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB.
Beier, J. (2024, Mar 9). Making, Doing, and Sensing at the Sonic Brink [paper presentation], philoSOPHIA 2024: Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB.
Beier, J. (2024, Feb 13). Accessible Pedagogies for the “End Times”: Work, Energy, Sustainability [public lecture], Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
Beier, J., Mookerjea, S., & Simpson, M. (2023, May 2). Emergency Signals: Hearing Energy, Listening for Repair [conference presentation], ReVerb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space, SpokenWeb Research Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Beier, J. (2023, Mar 8). Weird Pedagogy for the “End Times.” Public lecture for the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance’s (CSLP) 2023 Speaker Series, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
Beier, J. & Chapman, O. (2022, Oct 17-21). Landscape of Hope x BAM (Bennett-Argyll-Metro) Youth Artist Residency [artist residency & immersive installation], Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP), Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
Beier, J. & Chapman, O. (2022, Apr 26-27). Landscape of Hope Research-Creation and Electronic Music Workshops & Performance [workshop and performance], Bennett Centre, Edmonton, AB. Part of the “Ways of Knowing,” “Cultures of Consent” and “Anti-Racism” Summit series.