Childhood and Technology: A Posthumanist Critique of Technopedagogical Reason
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This paper explores the relationship between childhood and technology from a posthumanist perspective, challenging the technopedagogical rationality that dominates contemporary educational discourse. Against essentialist views that regard childhood as a natural stage and technology as an external agent, it proposes a relational ontology in which the child emerges as an event within a network of material, symbolic, and digital forces. The analysis addresses algorithmic and prosthetic forms of capture shaping childhood subjectivity under platform capitalism, as well as the risks of a pedagogy oriented toward performance and surveillance. Finally, it argues for imagining technological ecologies and childhood policies grounded in co-agency, openness, and hospitality toward otherness.
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