This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place.

JAN JAGODISNKI Professor of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Introduction: Aestheticization of the Wor(l)d Picture;  B.Steigler PART I: DECONSTRUCTING THE ORAL EYE Situating the Oral-Eye in Designer Capitalism On Visual Regimes and their Shadows PART II: RUINING REPRESENTATIONS Historical Antecedents: The Rise of the Unconscious in Artistic Practice Deleuze's 'logic of sense': The Importance of Affect for Art and its Education Badiou? 15 Lessons PART III: ART AND ITS EDUCATION IN DESIGNER CAPITALISM Between Art& Design Education: The Fundamental Antagonism The Primal Fantasy of Visual Art Education: It Just Keeps Going and Going and Going... Fantasies of Radicalism: Art Education's Conservative Appropriation of Postmodernism Badiou's Challenge to Education: The 'Truth" of Art, the Art of Truth Creativity? PART IV: LESSONS FOR ART EDUCATORS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE REAL The Impossible Real (Nachtwey) W(h)ither Pain? Avant Garde without Authority Virillo Meets Bill Viola: How to Overload the Circuits of Thought Krysztof Wodiczko: Counting the Uncounted Alfredo Jaar: The Limitations of the 'Real' Mondofesto PART V: REORIENTING ART EDUCATION FOR A POSTHUMAN AGE: SELF-REXFLEXIVITY OF INDESIGN From Eye-World to Brain-Eye: Self-RefleXivity in Art and Its Education PART IV: THINKING DIAGRAMATICALLY Orlan/Stelac/ Bilal Decentering the Visual Organ of Designer Capitalism: Probe-heads and Beyond