Abstract

Drawing on Gert Biesta’s tripartite conception of education the chapter expounds a novel interpretation of qualification, socialization and subjectification. It does so under the influence of the concept of the Anthropocene and the way in which this concept has been elaborated by literary scholar and philosophy prophet Timothy Morton. The normative didactical implications that follow from an Anthropocene inspired appropriation of Biesta’s three dimensions of education are put into context towards the end of the chapter where a piece of autoethnography illustrates how one might conceive of dark pedagogy as an instantiation of “good education”. We will follow a group of primary school pupils that are given a tour at a local slaughterhouse and take a look at the affectively intense outcome of their school excursion.