From Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius to Fernando Savater’s Ética para Amador, one of the historically important genres adopted in educational writing has been the letter whereby an adult/educator addresses a child/educatee, pivoting on moral education understood as a form of care of the self. The letter in this sense is a kind of écriture de soi and, thus, a vehicle for the cultivation of the arts of living. Drawing upon this model and inflecting it to a science fiction mode, we present different epistolary exchanges that take place between ourselves in our present time – ensnared in the convulsions of the Anthropocene – and our (human and non-human) descendants/children in an era yet-to-come. Thus, we frame storytelling about “ways of living and dying outside the coordinates of modern progress” as a series of educational letters understood in a broad sense. We set up threads of conversation between past, present and future. These developed into: 1) a correspondence with the future; 2) what we have called the Cyborg Chat Box; 3) hand-written, posted letters. This story aspires to offer an opportunity of collective thinking about education after progress.

Educational correspondences. An attempt at epistolary with the future / Oliverio, Stefano; Anna Blumsztajn; Job De Meyere; Wiebe Koopal; Morten, T. Korsgaard; Pia Rojahn; Hans Schildermans; Itay Snir; Viktor Swillens; Bianca Thoilliez; Joris Vlieghe; Kai Wortmann; Piotr Zamojski.. - (2022). (Intervento presentato al convegno After Progress. Digital Exhibition tenutosi a Goldsmiths Sociology Department -- University of London nel febbraio).

Educational correspondences. An attempt at epistolary with the future

Oliverio Stefano;
2022

Abstract

From Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius to Fernando Savater’s Ética para Amador, one of the historically important genres adopted in educational writing has been the letter whereby an adult/educator addresses a child/educatee, pivoting on moral education understood as a form of care of the self. The letter in this sense is a kind of écriture de soi and, thus, a vehicle for the cultivation of the arts of living. Drawing upon this model and inflecting it to a science fiction mode, we present different epistolary exchanges that take place between ourselves in our present time – ensnared in the convulsions of the Anthropocene – and our (human and non-human) descendants/children in an era yet-to-come. Thus, we frame storytelling about “ways of living and dying outside the coordinates of modern progress” as a series of educational letters understood in a broad sense. We set up threads of conversation between past, present and future. These developed into: 1) a correspondence with the future; 2) what we have called the Cyborg Chat Box; 3) hand-written, posted letters. This story aspires to offer an opportunity of collective thinking about education after progress.
2022
Educational correspondences. An attempt at epistolary with the future / Oliverio, Stefano; Anna Blumsztajn; Job De Meyere; Wiebe Koopal; Morten, T. Korsgaard; Pia Rojahn; Hans Schildermans; Itay Snir; Viktor Swillens; Bianca Thoilliez; Joris Vlieghe; Kai Wortmann; Piotr Zamojski.. - (2022). (Intervento presentato al convegno After Progress. Digital Exhibition tenutosi a Goldsmiths Sociology Department -- University of London nel febbraio).
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