Towards a pedagogy of immanence: Transversal revolts under neoliberal capitalism

Abstract

In this chapter, we propose to articulate Guattari’s concept of transversality as applied to education as neoliberal pedagogy under twenty-first-century capitalism. To do so, we will delineate an “adversarial relation” between definitions of transversality in the work of Guattari and the appropriation of Guattari’s concept by neoliberal pedagogical imperatives. In particular, we will investigate a recent report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that purports to set a framework for the deployment of transversality within the emerging markets of global capitalism. In contrast, we will offer two pedagogical provocations in this chapter that we suggest may open avenues to the further development of antidotes to the neoliberal appropriation of transversality in education.