As neoliberal capitalism destroys democracy, commonwealth, and planetary ecology, the need for radically rethinking and generating transformative responses to these catastrophes is greater than ever. Given that, Romand Coles presents an invigorating new mode of scholarship and political practice he calls "visionary pragmatism." Coles explores the profound interrelationships among everyday micropractices of grassroots politics and pedagogy, institutional transformation, and political protest through polyfocal lenses of political and social theory, neuroscience research, complex systems theory, and narratives of his cutting-edge action research. Visionary Pragmatism offers a theory of revolutionary cooptation that, in part, selectively employs practices and strategies of the dominant order to radically alter the coordinates of power and possibility. Underscoring the potential, vitality, and power of emerging democratic practices to change the world, Visionary Pragmatism's simultaneous theoretical rigor and grounding in actual political and ecological practices provokes and inspires new ways of cocreating knowledge and action in dark times.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theorizing from and Traveling toward a Radical Democratic Habitus
- Chapter 1. The Neuropolitical Habitus of Resonant Receptive Democracy
- Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine
- Mirror Neurons and Receptive Intercorporeal Resonance
- Toward a Democratic Habitus of Resonant Receptivity
- Democratic Habitus and Engaged Pedagogy Transformations at NAU
- Chapter 2. From Mega-circulatory Power to Polyface Flows
- Mega-circulation, Governmentality, and Antidemocratic Ecocidal Megapower
- Movements of Decentralized Receptive Circulation
- Imagining Ethical Communities of Receptive “Polyface” Flows
- Polyface Routing and Rooting at NAU and in Northern Arizona
- Contentious Circulations: Struggles in the Roots/Routes
- Chapter 3. System Dynamics and a Radical Politics of Transformative Co-optation
- Autocatalysis and Self-Organizing Dynamics of Radical Democracy
- The Dynamics of Radical Democratic Co-opting
- Chapter 4. Shock Democracy and Wormhole Hope in Catastrophic Times
- The Indispensable Alternating Currents of Shock Politics
- Visionary Pragmatism and Tragic Resilience for a Storm-Shocked Eaarth
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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