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Books (In and Out of Print)

jagodzinski, jan (1996)The Anamorphic I/i: (Edmonton, Alberta: Duval House Publishing Inc: ).690 pages. (7X9)

Issues surrounding sexual and gendered identity politics remain a heated area of debate in the culture of postmodernism. Feminism(s), men's studies, queer politics, gay and lesbian representations, and the transgendered bodies of transsexuals and cross-dressers form a destabilizing matrix of constant semiosis as these bodies struggle for their rights and recognition against a patriarchal and homophobic society. The 'anamorphic I/i presents an 'impossible' attempt at seeing oneself seeing oneself in this complex of events by stepping onto the playing surface of this (my)nfield where there is no net of safety. Writing in this area virtually guarantees that someone will take offense to what is being offered as it is read from various subject positions. The result of putting the body at risk is (hopefully) to cast the readers into a hall of theoretical mirrors, to experience a mise en abyme effect where oblique glances present odd glimpses of familiar problems as to what is 'normally' perceived as the masculine/feminine and male/female binaries.

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jagodzinski, jan (1997) Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&Art Education (1997) New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. 295 pages (8.5 X 11)

This book presents a series of essays covering a timespan of approximately 10 years. These essays chart the theory and practice of art & art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity and poststructuralism concerning representation, identity politics, consumerism, postmodern architecture, ecology, phallocentrism of the artistic cannon, pluriculturalism, media & technology, and AIDS.

As a former editor of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and a founding member of the Causus on Social Theory in Art Education, the author attempts to deconstruct the current art education paradigm, which is largely based on modernist tenets, and to reorient art education practice to social isues as developed in both media education and cultural studies. Part of the intent in these two volumes is to undertake a sustained critique of the 1982 Art in the Mainstream (A.I.M) statement, which continues to be considered as the core values for art education. The distinct intention of this critique is to put forward a new value base for art & art education in these postmodern times.

Many of the essays raise the need to be attentive to sex/gender issues in art & art education and the need to read the artistic discourse "otherwise". There is a sustained critique of the art programs developed by Getty Center for the Arts, whose arts curriculum presents the paradigm case of late modernist thinking. Some essays are written in a provocative form which tries to accommodate such content. This is particularly the case in Volume 2, where architecture discourse is deconstructed, and which includes an "artistic performance" given by the author in 1987.

This singular set of volumes combines scholarship in the areas of gender studies, aesthetics, art history, art education, poststructuralism, and cultural studies in a unique blend of theory and practice for rethinking the field of art education.

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jagodzinski, jan (1997) Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&Art Education (1997) New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum 287 pages (8.5 X 11)

In Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experimental Writings in Art &Art Education and Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&Art Education, jan jagodzinski presents a series of essays covering a timespan of approximately I 0 years. These essays chart the theory and practice of art &art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity and poststructuralism concerning representation, identity politics, consumerism, postmodern architecture, ecology, phallocentrism of the artistic canon, pluriculturalism, media & technology, and AIDS.

As a former editor of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and a founding member for the Caucus on Social Theory in Art Education, the author attempts to deconstruct the current art education paradigm, which is largely based on modernist tenets, and to reorient art education practice to social issues as developed in both media education and cultural studies. Part of the intent in these two volumes is to undertake a sustained critique of the 1982 Art in the Mainstream (A.l.M.) statement, which continues to be considered as the core values for art education. The distinct intention of this critique is to put forward a new value base for art &art education in the these post-modern times.

Many of the essays raise the need to be attentive to sex/gender issues in art &art education and the need to read the artistic discourse "otherwise." There is a sustained critique of the art programs developed by Getty Center for the Arts, whose arts curriculum presents the paradigm case of late modernist thinking. Some essays are written in a provocative form which tries to accommodate such content. This is particularly the case in Volume 2, where architectural discourse is deconstructed, and which includes an "artistic performance" given by the author in I 987.

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jagodzinski, jan (ed.) (2002). Pedagogical Desire: Transference, Seduction and the Question of Ethics. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey. (211 pages with two personal visuals)

A Strange Introduction: My Apple Thing

Not the ego but its lack
Not behavior but jouissance
Not imagination but fantasy
Not knowledge but ignorance
Not regurgitation but transformation
Not motivation but object a as cause of desire
Not the exam but the subject in process and on trail

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jagodzinski, jan (2004) Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media. New York: Palgrave Press. (328 pages)

There is something ironic about adults attempting to write a book on youth fantasies, whatever "adult" might mean today. It is impossible to "attain" our kids; to somehow turn back time and become a high school student once again like thefigure of Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) in Raja Gosnell's comedy Never Been Kissed (1999). Josie "Grossie," who is now 25, goes back to her old high school as an undercover journalist to do a story, and ends up facing her own repressed traumas with disatrous results. To "attain" our children; that is, to hold them captive for our own misguided ends turns them into monsters of our own creation-mommy's boy who is not permitted to grow up; daddy's boy who doesn't grow up being quite like him. Or mommy's girl who grows up being frighteningly just like her mom and daddy's girl who is always trying to please him. Youth has its own differentiations and struggles for recognition. It is a complex phenomenon, and for us to pretend that we have somehow "captured" it all is the worst kind of arrogance. Thre are many teens and young people whose knowledge is infinitely more detailed than our own, whose passionate attachments to their iconic musical stars infinitely more committed than ours. It is precisely because we cannot "attain" our children; a theme encountered once envery so often throughout this bok, that such a book has to be written. Parents have always scratched their head when it comes to youth, and the thesis of this book is nothing but another head-scratching. If it weren't for such head-scratching, the commitment and responsibility adults have to youth would be surely lost. Our head-scratching comes form a particular perspective, that of Lacanian psychoanalysis.........

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jagodzinski, jan (2005). Music in Youth Culture: A Lacanian Approach. New York: Palgrave Press.

Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. jan jagodzinski, drawing on the Lacanian psychoanalytic paradigm, maintains that a new set of signifiers is required to grasp the sliding signification of contemporary "youth." He discusses topics such as the figurality of noise, the perversions of the music scene by boyz/bois/boys and the hysterization of it by gurlz/girls/grrls. Music in Youth Culture also examines the postmodern "fan(addict)," techno music, and pop music icons. jagodzinski raises the Lacanian question of "an ethics of the Real" and also asks educators to re-examine "youth" culture for the 21st century.

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jagodzinski, jan (in progress). Youth Undercover Televised Paranoai. New York: Palgrave Press. View the table of contents.

jagodzinski, jan (in process) The Deconstruction of the Oral Eye: Arts Education in Postmodernity. Hampton Press.

Kieffer-Boyd, Karen, Emme, M. & jagodzinski, jan. InSITE, InSIGHT, In CITE: 25 Years of The Journals of Social Theory in Art Education: Submitted to Reston, Virginia: National Art Education Association (in print)

Books in Progress

jagodzinski, jan : The Psychic Life of Teaching (second book in the series Pedagogy, Psychoanalysis, Transformation, Palgrave McMillan)

Prepared Manuscripts (In process for review)

Narrating the "O" Between Hominoids and the Hominids: The Protocultural Evolution of Aesthetic Experience, (300 pages+).

Translation of H. Kupffer's Erziehung der Postmoderne . With B. Hipfl, University Klagenfurt, Austria (in process, half finished.)

Hollywood's Appropriation Of Alterity (250 pages). SUNY press.

Marco Bellocchio's Devil in The Flesh: An Interpretive Reading. (175 pages)

Critical Essays in Art Education (250 pages)

Postmodern Bodies of Performative Excess (200 pages)

Cinematic Representations of Pedagogical Desire (250 pages)

Monographs and Unpublished Dissertations

jagodzinski, jan. 1980. Aesthetic Consciousness and Historical Criticism. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis (425 pages).

jagodzinski, jan. 1977. Aesthetics, Aesthetic Education and Art Education. Unpublished Masters Thesis. University of Alberta. 385 pages.

jagodzinski, jan. 1979.Towards a New Aesthetic. CMI Occasional Paper Series. no. 12. Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta.

Book Chapters

1979

"Artistic Truth and Reality as a Component of the Schooling Experience," in Educational Futures: Anticipations by the Next Generation of Canadian Scholars Ed. K. Mazurek, Edmonton, University of Alberta, l979, pp.117-132.

1984

"Aesthetic Education Reconsidered, or Please Don't Have an Aesthetic Experience," in Readings in Canadian Art Education. Ed. R.N. MacGregor. Western Education Development Group, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Press, l984, pp. 69-76.

1985

"The Arts in a Canadian Society: A Critical Examination," in Monographs In Education XIV: Art Education: Reflections/ Directions. Ed. Rene Carpentier and Joan Walters. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, l985, pp.5-20.

"The Art Educator's Fishing Kit: or How to Get Your Bait Free During Times of Restraint," in Sink or Swim Survival Manual. Ed. K. Grauer and P. Scurr. B.C.: British Columbia Teachers Publication, l985, pp. 16-20.

"Semiology, The Chic Science: A Critique," in Nova Scotia College Research Paper. Ed. N. Webb, NSCAD Press, 1985, pp. 45-56.

1987

"Towards An Ecological Aesthetic: Notes Towards a 'Green' Frame of Mind," in. Arts in A Democracy. Ed. K. Congdon and D. Blandy. Teacher College Press, l987, pp. 138-164.

1992

"The Poetics of Green Esthetics: Situating 'Green Criticism' in the Postmodern Condition, in D. Blandy & K. Congdon (1992) Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism. Bowling Green, University of Press, pp. 49-71.

1993

"Curriculum as Felt Through Six Layers of an Aesthetically Embodied Skin: The Arch- Writing on the Body," in Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text. Ed. Bill Reynolds and Bill Pinar. pp. 159-183. New York and London: Teachers College Press, 1993.

1994

Postmodern Allegories of Hollywood. In Interfaces: Image Texte Language, Medias: entre Fiction et Realite. Edited by Guy Deost. pp. 329-348. International: Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France., 1994.

1996

jan jagodzinski, Brigitte Hipfl and Klaus Hipfl (1996). Documentary Film and the Bosnia-Hercegovina Conflict: From Production to Reception. In James Gow, Richard Patterson, and Alison Preston (eds.), Bosnia by TV. pp. 52-87. London: British Film Institute.

jan jagodzinski (1996) The Politics of Difference: The Fate of Art in an Age of Identity Crisis. In Phoebe Farris-Dufrenne (ed.), Voices of Color. pp. 78-117. New Jersey: Humanities Press International, Inc.

1997

jan jagodzinski (1997). The Perception of Non-perception: Lessons for an Art Education with 'Downcast Eyes' (Part 1: Trompe-L'Oeil and the Question of Radical Evil).pp. 53-72. In Rita Irwin and Kit Grauer (eds.) Reading in Canadian Art Teacher Education (Boucherville, Quebec: Canadian Society through Art)

1998

jan jagodzinski and Brigitte Hipfl (1998). Fantasies of Consumerism: Consequences for Identity Formation-An Intercultural Comparison Between Tanzania (Dar-es-Salaam), Canada (Edmonton), and Austria (Klagenfurt). In UNESCO: Young People and the Media: Problems and Viewpoints/ Le Jeunes et les Medias Demain: Problematiques et Perspectives, section A2/2/3. Edited by Elizabeth Auclaire (GRREM: Paris)

1999

jagodzinski, jan (1999). Thinking Through /Difference/ in Art Education Contexts: Working the Third Space and Beyond. In Rachel Masson and Doug Boughton (eds.), Beyond Multicultural Art Education: International Perspectives. pp. 303-330. Waxmann: Munster/New York Munchen/Berlin.

2000

jagodzinski, jan (2000). The work of Bernhard Lang: Piece DW2. CD Disc.

2001

jagodzinski, j. (2002). Multiculturalidade no Pos-Modernismo. In A. Barbosa (Ed.), Pos-Modernismo. Sao Paolo, Brazil: Editora Perspectiva.

2003

jagodzinski, j. (2003) The Pierced and Tattooed Body: The Branded Skin-ego of Post-Oedipalization. In Heinz Tschachler, Maureen Devine, Michael Draxlbauer (Eds.) The Embodyment of American Culture. pp. 73-86. Munster: LIT Verlag.

2004

jagodzinski, jan and Hipfl, Brigitte. 2004. "Grenzen und Grenzuberschreitungen in und mit Computerspielen". In Krainz-Durr, Marlies, Enzinger, Hildegard and Schmoczer, Michaela (Eds.). Grenzen Uberschreiten in Bildung und Schule. Grenzen Uberschreiten. pp. 1-11. (in Texte, A-J). Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag.

2005

jagodzinski, j. (2005) “Lacan's Innovation of Semiotics: Psychoanalysis as a Methodology for Art Education as Visual Cultural Studies.” In Debbie Shank-Smith (ed). Semiotics and Visual Culture: Sights, Signs, and Significance Art Education. pp. 139-146. Reston, Virginia: National Art Education Association

jagodzinski, j.(2005). “Identitat im Cyberspace: Ein psychoanalytischer Zugang.” In Brigitte Hipfl/ Elisabeth Klaus/ Uta Scheer (Hg.) Identitatsraume: Nation,? Korper und Geschlecht in den Medien. Eine Topografie. pp. 338-364. Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld.

2006

jagodzinski, j.(2005). “Desire.” In James T. Sears, Editor Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, Volume One. pp. 261- 264. London and Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

jagodzinski, j.(2005). “Lacan.” In James T. Sears, Editor Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, Volume Two. pp. 493-495. London and Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

jagodzinski, j. (2006). The Question of Community in the Tradition of Western Art : From Romanticism to the Internet. In Brigitte Hipfl and Theo Hug (eds.). Media Communities. pp.47-64. New York, Munchen, Berlin : Waxman.

2008

jagodzinski, jan.(2008). The Gaze of the Teacher: Eye-to-Eye with Lacan, Derrida and Zen Buddhism. In Claudia Eppert and Hongyu Wang (ed.). Cross-Cultural Studies in Curiculum: Eastern Thought, Educational Insights. pp. 137-170. New York and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Chapters in Press

jagodzinski, jan. Examining Water as a Theme in Eco-art: Between Feminine and Masculine Sublime. In Maureen Devine, The Politics of Water, Grund Verlag

jagodzinski, jan. Fantasies of Radicalism: Art Education’s Conservative Appropriation of Postmodernism . In Rita Irwin and Kit Grauer. Essays of Canadian Art Educators.

jagodzinski, jan. Putting Film into the Abyss: Zizek’s Wager.? Zizek Revealed. Fabio and Heiko (Eds.). Cambridge Scholars Press

jagodzinski, j. (in process). “Gaze.” SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. Edited by James Rolling. Sage Publications.

jagodzinski, j. (in process). “Scopophilia.” SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. Edited by James Rolling. Sage Publications.

jagodzinski, j. (in process). “Simulacra.” SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. Edited by James Rolling. Sage Publications.

jagodzinski, j. (in process). “Visualizing Desire.” SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. Edited by James Rolling. Sage Publications.

jagodzinski, jan.(in press). Putting Filmic Art into the Abyss of Freedom: Truman’s Act of Redemption (Chapter 4). Zizek Uncovered. Fabio and Heiko (Eds). Cambridge Scholars Press.

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