Posthumanism and why education is generally 60 years late to the Party. - Episode 2 /  by Stuart MacAlpine

Stuart reflections on NXNE North by Northeast and gives an introduction to posthumanism and education, and explores the idea that education is too often 60 years late to the party.

Links to texts discussed

  • Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press.

  • Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. 6th print. Paradigm 8. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2012.

  • Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Experimental Futures Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices. Duke University Press, 2016.

  • Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman (1st edn). Polity Press.

  • Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman Knowledge (1st edn). Wiley.

  • Jackson, Z. I. (2020). Becoming human: Matter and meaning in an antiblack world. New York University Press.

  • Yeo, Sophie. Nature’s Ghosts. HarperNorth, 2025.

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What Machiavelli can teach us about school leadership - Episode /  by Stuart MacAlpine

Stuart talks to Nick Little, Oxford Historian, and school head at International School of Aberdeen about surprising lessons for school leadership from medieval thinking. We range from John of Salisbury, to Posthumanism.

Links to texts discussed

  • John of Salisbury https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1785154.Policraticus

  • The Defender of the Peace Marsilius of Padua https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3280975-the-defender-of-the-peace

  • The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28862.The_Prince

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