#anti-capitalist pedagogy

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MMQG as Resistance against Capitalist Education and the Infrastructures of Control

The landscape of contemporary education is inseparable from the machinery of capital. Across continents, curricula are standardised to optimise for labour-market compliance, while testing regimes reduce human learning to metrics that feed predictive analytics and investment portfolios. Surveillance platforms harvest student data as a raw resource for profit. Even the rhetoric of “lifelong…

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The triadic structure as a fractal pedagogy

The architecture of MMQG was never conceived as a loose federation of three disparate practices, stitched together by convenience, eclecticism, or superficial syncretism. Instead, it was shaped as a living unity in which meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong form a triadic constellation, each carrying a particular mode of orientation, and each intersecting with the others in recursive,…

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The Flowing Body – MMQG through Qi Gong

In speaking of MMQG, which is at once Meditation, Mindfulness, and Qi Gong, one is always confronted by the risk of abstraction, of collapsing the living pedagogy into a discourse of rarefied concepts, metaphors, and philosophical frames that hover too high above the practitioner’s immediate condition. Yet it is precisely here, in the refusal to exile the body from the pedagogical field, that the…

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MMQG as Insurgent Pedagogy: Reclaiming Learning, Knowledge, and Transmission – part 2

The first part of our inquiry into MMQG as insurgent pedagogy has dismantled the architecture of the classroom as a disciplinary machine, exposing its functions as a carceral apparatus that trains bodies and minds to perform obedience to the norms of capitalist modernity. In that case, the second part must take up the far more radical work of remapping learning itself. For to unmask the machine…