Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership An A-Z Towards Collective Liberation / [electronic resource] :
by Kai Syng Tan.
- 1st ed. 2024.
- XX, 286 p. 20 illus. in color. online resource.
- Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture, 2946-4846 .
- Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture, .
1) T: Turn the Table of Dis-Contents -- 2) P: Pivot. Play Havoc -- 3) Y: Yell Back, Huff & Puff, Blow the House Down!- 4) V: Visualise 2050 -- 5) F: Futurise. Up-Rise. Up-End -- 6) G: Gate-Crash. Change Culture Through Ill-Discipline -- 7) D: Dys-Play Your Difference -- 8) U: Un-Learn Tentacularly -- 9) H: Make Head-Ways Hyper-Tactically -- 10) E: Energise. Gently Anarchise -- 11) R: Run New (Dis-)Courses -- 12) W: Wake & Shake Off Smoke-Screens -- 13) Z: Zing & Sting Leadership -- 14) M: Monster-Map. Move Mountains, Moons & Mars -- 15) C: Clock-Block. Drive Your Own Destiny -- 16) L: Lunge Forward in Your Battle-Cat!- 17) Q: Have Quickies with Other Species -- 18) B: Boom Boom! Be the Bees Knees -- 19) S: Stim. Self-Soothe -- 20) I: Island-Hop. Insure Against Insularity -- 21) J: Jeer-Leadership for Justice!- 22) X: X-Ray Yourselves -- 23) N: Neuro-Futurise & Collectivise -- 24) A: Agitate as Artful, Agile & A-Typical Cheer-Leaders -- 25) O: Octo-Pussify. Oxygenate -- 26) K: Kick-Start 10,000 Oppositional Aesthetic Acts.
This book is a rip-roaring manifesto that re-claims ways to think about and do ‘leadership’. Colliding mobilities, neuro-queering, the arts and culture, critical leadership studies, social justice, creative pedagogy, futurity and Daoist cosmology for the first time, the book proposes ‘neuro-futurism’ as a beyond-colonial, heuristic change-making tool-kit for individuals and institutions. Celebrating the Dangerous, Demeaning and Dirty labour of Deviant/Defiant culture-workers often side-lined in (leadership) scholarship across 26 break-neck chapters and 40 images, this book challenges white-supremacist-cis-het-neuro-normative-capitalist-patriarchal forms of power and knowledge. Punchy, punching up and pulling no punches, it is a call to arms, feet, sole-soul, to co-create tables/houses/worlds that profit (neuro-)divergent people, planet, poetry and play. The deadline is 2050, so we’re running out of time. Are you ready for an extra-ordinary adventure? Kai Syng Tan (she/they) is an artist-academic-agitator and Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership at UK’s University of Southampton. She writes in her personal, hyperactive and tentacular capacity. .