Radical Education and the Abolitionist University

This chapter offers some starting suggestions on the role Critical Media Literacy (CML) can play in founding a new society, which Stefano Harney and Fred Moten argue is the foal of abolition. The authors enlist the possibilities that already exist both inside formal educational institutions and outside. The authors argue that CML can help erect a new society so by extending and experimenting within its sites of cultivation, forms, and modes of engagement, alternative ways of being and being in community, and what epistemologies it uses to reach “the end of (this) world” (Maynard and Betasamosake Simpson). The authors present an explicit end goal toward which CML pedagogical pursuits should work: abolitionist democracy.