#anti-capitalist education

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The Triadic Structure as a Fractal Pedagogy

When we speak of the triadic nature of MMQG, we are not describing a juxtaposition of three independent modalities, nor a toolkit where practitioners may select according to mood or inclination. The triad of meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong is not an aggregate but a structural necessity, and this structure is fractal in the deepest sense. By fractal, we mean that the same pattern repeats…

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Meditation as stillness, mindfulness as presence, Qi Gong as embodiment

Meditation in MMQG cannot be understood as a mere technique for relaxation, nor as a consumerist wellness product to make the exhausted worker more compliant in the machine of productivity. It is not a way of emptying the mind so that it can return cleansed and ready to resume the rhythms of capitalist time. Rather, meditation as practised and taught in MMQG is an ontological act of refusal, an…

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MMQG as Insurgent Pedagogy: Reclaiming Learning, Knowledge, and Transmission – part 3

If we have travelled through the terrain of education so far as explorers of its internal contradictions, mapping both the structures that enforce conformity and the practices that open space for divergence, then the third and final movement must be understood as both culmination and rupture, as a return to the same field but seen from the perspective of its possible dissolution. Every…

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MMQG as Insurgent Pedagogy: Reclaiming Learning, Knowledge, and Transmission - part 1

The history of pedagogy, if stripped of its self-congratulatory myths and narratives of progress, is a history of domestication. From the Platonic Academy where knowledge was reserved for an elite, through the monastic schools where doctrine was enforced through rote memorisation, to the modern university system where knowledge is commodified and bureaucratised, the thread that binds these…