{"product_id":"teaching-against-the-machine-alexander-j-means-9781350506800","title":"Teaching Against the Machine: Critical Pedagogy in an Era of Artificial Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis an experimental critical pedagogy of artificial intelligence in relation to futures of capitalism, thought, education, politics, and radical imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTeaching Against the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e offers a searing account of artificial intelligence as a cultural and pedagogical force in an era of systemic nihilism. Alexander J. Means shows how AI extracts from the living archive of human creativity and knowledge only to degrade it through the financial, algorithmic, and military circuitry of late capitalism and its destructive geopolitics. Algorithmic systems disfigure collective memory, fragment thought, and attempt to foreclose a shared humanity and future. Refusing both transhumanist fantasy and apocalyptic fatalism, Means argues for an experimental critical pedagogy that can teach against the dead machines of the present. This is a book about reclaiming thought, time, imagination, and political agency. It investigates what education must become if it is to foster lives of meaning rather than surrender them to barbarism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander J. Means\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135050680X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350506800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Alexander J. Means","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49083957543167,"sku":"9781350506800","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teaching-against-the-machine-alexander-j-means-9781350506800","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}