Poetry as Truth: Deschooling the United States, AERA, and the Ivan Illich SIG

• In Event: 67.043 - Conviviality, Community, and Contemplative Education: Ivan Illich and Wendell Berry

Abstract

In this Poetry as Truth Performance we pop new propositions to DeSchool the Trumpedupness of our democracy. With modes of multiplicity, we present a fresh Illichian simplicity for conviviality. Our pedagogy of public praxis presents two points: 1. A Post Apoco-Poetic-Mode and Alternative Analysis of Illichian ‘Truth.’ 2. A Radical Departure, Re-Iterative Reemergence, & Revolutionary Re-Searched Revival to Promote Public Sphere Scholar-Activist Survival! We mix art, eco-activism, and scholarship to take the SIG deeper into its own roots. Illich’s Truth shines in our call for forest garden archaeologies and civic communal Earth-kind divine. This novel creation space-place time sets us on a new super slow wavelength sublime.

Authors

• Alan Wight, The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences

• Allison JoAnn Lester, University of Cincinnati

• Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University

• Simon N. Jorgenson, The University of Vermont