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Why do Children Play?
Investigating play as subversive intellectual method to resist structures of power from co-opting 'not-yet' within existence. Through philosophical and cultural fieldwork, how does children’s existence in play help us understand an unlikely form of freedom and resistance against power structures that seek to bind us. Is play our first act of resistance? our refusal to be captured? One can steal a lot from children, but never their play.
What is Education?
Considering events such as Russia's 'reeducation camps' in Ukraine, Sri Lanka's fanatic chase for colonial curriculums through 'international schools', and Vietnam's directed anti-imperialist national education, they reveal the umbilical cord of empires to its subjects (children). The cord? Education. Education mainly serves as a tool by empires to either procreate and sustain present and future global dominance, or to resist it. Yet, education seeks to develop the whole being of the student for their individual existence. With this contradiction I ask, what is education?
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