A new review of Pedagogy at the End of the World is out in the world in Studies in Philosophy and Education! In “Figuring the apocalypse,” Delphi Carstens tracks the book’s weird wagers, offering a super thoughtful, generous, and critical take on the work.

Here’s a taste…

“Beier’s Pedagogy at the end of the world: weird pedagogies for unthought educational futures (2023) provides us with rich source material from which to launch a counter-sorcery of pedagogical negation. Her book arrives at a crucial moment when, with wars on four continents, multiple planetary boundaries exceeded, and neo-fascist revanches on the rise, obsolete humanist logics remain firmly sedimented at every level of social reproduction (including education). Identifying, connecting and binding the holes and gaps that the rapidly advancing ‘end of the world’ event have created in education’s stilted vision of a world-for-us, Beier shows how a non-normative weird pedagogy, appropriate to our situation of escalating permacrisis, might go about mobilising techno-scientific aporias, uncanny socio-economic situations and more-than-human contact zones from which educational futures can and must emerge. The lingering spectre of the terror of history raises discomforting questions about education’s relation to being and non-being, life and death, finitude and extinguishment. This spectre demands from education a justice to come for a people to come; it requires pedagogues to converse with its uncanny presence by casting lines to the absolute outside of human giveness.”