The incorporeal universe of childhood in the tactical pedagogies of Félix Guattari and Tanigawa Gan

Abstract

This chapter looks to analyze the philosophy of Felix Guattari alongside the Japanese intellectual and writer, Tanigawa Gan, with a focus on pedagogy. The pedagogy that one might draw out from Guattari’s writings presents a tactical means to avoid the desubjectifying and annihilatory aspects of contemporary capitalism. Similarly, the pedagogy that one may draw from the work of Tanigawa Gan is defiant and resistant to the dominant, conformist forces of contemporary capitalist life. This chapter works with Guattari and Gan as a combinatory force to hold onto what is most powerful and pertinent about childhood, and to carry it forward as pedagogy. As such, this chapter opens up a newmovement in education through transversal becomings and serves as a method to understand how to work positively with subjective singularities in the world.