Kjetil Horn Hogstad

• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2020). Is (It) Time to Leave Eternity Behind? Rethinking Bildung's Implicit Temporality. Journal of Philosophy of Education.  ISSN 0309-8249. . doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12492 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Motivated by Gadamer's identification of Bildung's ‘Vorbild‐Bildung‐Nachbild’ (model‐process‐result) structure, a historical tracing of the Christian messianic heritage in Bildung is conducted. As Bildung grows into an educational concept with global aspirations, this heritage might prove a substantial theoretical obstacle. As an alternative to the Christian messianic conception of time, Crockett and Malabou's concept ‘plastic time’ is presented. Whereas Christian messianic time collects its drive from the eternal which is (not) to come, plastic time collects its drive from the ‘synaptic gap’ instead, the creative and constructive space located and organised in the human body. Crockett and Malabou argue that plastic time might allow the deconstruction of Christianity, and, this article suggests, consequently also of Bildung. A formulation of Bildung that can go beyond Western thinking would be a shift that might have consequences for education generally.

• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2020). Towards a Plastic Starting Point: Rethinking Ethical-Political Education with Catherine Malabou, In Torill Strand (ed.),  Rethinking Ethical-Political Education.  Springer Nature.  ISBN 978-3-030-49524-4.  Kapittel 10.  s 153 - 166 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Sometime around 500 BCE, Heraclitus is supposed to have said that it is impossible to step in the same river twice. Since then, the problem of being and change has never left Western philosophy. Evidently important in and to education, change continues to be an important field of inquiry. In this text, I approach the concept of change by way of an examination of Catherine Malabou’s philosophy of plasticity. I revisit what I identify as three main moments in her philosophy: Her re-elaboration of Hegelian time and dialectics as the process through which change happens; the open potentiality of the moment as she finds it in Heidegger; and change as driven by, and dependent on, concepts and schematization as she finds it implied in Derrida. By setting change at the center for what might be called her post-post-structural, materialist, yet non-deterministic ontology, Malabou’s three moments could open up for a rethinking of the changeable character of the Nordic model, as well as the character of ethical-political education.

• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2019). Can we kill the Bildung king? – The quest for a non-sovereign concept of Bildung. Educational Philosophy and Theory.  ISSN 0013-1857. . doi: 10.1080/00131857.2019.1707655

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• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2021). Aiming for the Unseen – Education and Plastic Selection. Show summary

  If it is the case that education is thought as an institution that promotes justice, two main questions immediately arise: How do we think justice, and can we hope to promote justice in education? By drawing from the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, I first propose a way of thinking justice based on her concept of ‘plasticity’. While related to Jacques Derrida’s concept of justice, Malabou’s involves an orientation towards the material – a semiotic materialism, if you will – that opens up for a different and perhaps more accessible view on the future. Then, I will proceed from the assumption that education is a type of social selection, as it has stratifying effects both ‘vertically’ – age and accumulated merit – and ‘horizontally’ – between peers. Borrowing from Malabou’s study of Althusser and Darwin, I explore the notion of education based on a ‘plastic’ type of selection, mirroring the unexpected and unplanned movements of natural selection. This exploration, performed in the name of justice, might be the basis for a type of educational selection that continually reinvents itself.

• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2021). En kjapp og grei vei til doktorgrad i pedagogikk.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2021). Plasticity and education – an interview with Catherine Malabou. Educational Philosophy and Theory.  ISSN 0013-1857. . doi: 10.1080/00131857.2021.1940140 Show summary

  In this interview, we discuss the foundations of Malabou’s thinking as well as several important strains present in the articles of the EPAT special issue "Plasticity and Education" – rationality, materiality, ‘anarchic education’ – and the question of life itself.

• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn & Grønsberg, Cindy (2021). Faglig autonomi i sentrum: Studentaktive læringsformer med obligatorisk hverandrevurdering.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2020). The Plasticity of Bildung - Towards a New Philosophy of Education. Doktoravhandlinger forsvart ved Det utdanningsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo. 324. Show summary

  This is a philosophical study of the concept of Bildung in light of the philosophy of Catherine Malabou. Her work is centred around the concept plasticity, of dialectical and deconstructionist descent and informed by neuroscience. Considering Bildung a particular idea of the relation between education, society, history, and individuality, the thesis identifies change, power, and temporality as foundational aspects of this idea. These aspects are then critiqued on the basis of plasticity, which sees form as the primordially mutable and foundational unit of thought. Form is the material accumulation of the reception of form, of self-change, and of accidents. In this light, Bildung appears as a plastic form, inhabiting, challenging and changing the material body, doomed to continually renew itself. Overall, the thesis prepares the ground for a ‘plastic Bildung’, a new metaphor for education. Plastic Bildung exists in the meeting point between symbols, matter, and self-change. It suggests a shift in emphasis from the preparation of children for the future to opening up a space where the student and history - subjects, techniques, ways of thinking - may meet.

• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2019). Dannelse.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2018). On Becoming and Catherine Malabou's 'Voir Venir'.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2018). Sovereignty and Bildung.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2018). Towards a Plastic Starting Point: Rethinking Ethical-Political Education with Catherine Malabou.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2018). What are some pedagogical consequences of the ontology of plasticity?.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2017). Catherine Malabous plastisitetsbegrep som grunnlag for pedagogisk forståelse.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2017). Epigenetics, cloning, and a unified life.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2017). Malabou og plastisitet.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2017). Plasticity and time - towards a new thinking of pedagogy?.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2017). The Plasticity of Sustainability.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2016). A pedagogy of plasticity.
• Hogstad, Kjetil Horn (2016). Catherine Malabou as a philosopher of education.

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