By engaging an encyclopedic range of figures from the philosophical tradition and popular culture, Lewis and Kahn lead us on a fascinating journey to discover the monsters that populate our posthuman world. We are confronted by horrible and fearsome beasts of violence, exploitation, and destruction, but we also recognize ourselves in creative monsters that blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman life. Most impressively, Lewis and Kahn propose paths to train the monsters of our world, a monstrous education, a pedagogy for thebeautifulmonsters we can become. - Michael Hardt, co-author of Commonwealth
Our cultural fascinations with the monstrous and its omnipresence in our contemporary Western imaginings play center-stage in this provocative exploration of a zooephilic exopedagogy. From the feral, to the alien, to the faery, Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn put pressure on our affective comfort zones by asking us what it means to love the monstrous amidst and within us. The answer comes through their theoretically vast and conceptually rich exploration of a radical democratic pedagogy of the unrepresentable. - Davide Panagia, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Trent University, Co-Editor of Theory and Event, and author of The Political Life of Sensation
In contrast to anthropocentric education, Lewis and Kahn propose an alternative pedagogy or exopedagogy as a form of posthumanist education. This radical form of cultural informal pedagogy transgresses boundaries of narrow rationality and represents what Lewis and Kahn posit as 'education out of bounds' [...] Supporting new utopian visions, Lewis and Kahn call for a new exo-revolution informed by their project of exopedagogy that would have created theory/practice nexus, which is missing within the present secular and materialist-oriented capitalist discourse. - Teachers College Record
Education Out of Bounds is refreshing and admirable for its engagement with an assemblage of pedagogical monsters (feral child, alien and faery) that have haunted education. It allows readers to understand education in terms of its systems and logics of exclusion. Moving beyond the text itself, perhaps the most significant question now pertains to what can be done with
such a theory. - Policy Futures in Education
Lewis and Kahn articulate a refreshingly urgent call for politics free of 'genocide, ecocide, or zooecide,' and their exopedagogy is a valuable tool for imagining democracy unbound from the division and exploitation of life. - symploke
In this provocative polemic of posthuman proportions, Lewis and Kahn invite us ... to not only embrace the monsters in our closets, but to become monsters, ourselves, as we experiment with new forms of democratic imagion in this enticingly bold, thought-provoking, boundary breaking book, that brings to bear the limitations of humanism and suggests ways to transcend them. - Educational Studies