This book presents a critical reimagining of education and educational
research in addressing practices of representation and their relation to
epistemology, subjectivity and ontology in the context of early
childhood education. Drawing on posthumanist perspectives and the
immanent materialism of Deleuze & Guattari to conceive of early
childhood education, childhood and indeed, adult life, in new ways, it
highlights the powerful role of language in subjectivity and ontology,
and introduces affectensity as a concept which can be put to work to
undo habitual relations and meanings. It proposes that ethical becomings
require the engagement of an expansion and intensification of a body's
affect or capacity, and offers readers a provocation for enhancing
creative capacity as an ethic. This book is an important contribution to
the discussions on methods for living and of ways of thinking
commensurate with the orientation of a posthuman turn.