An essential read for anyone who believes that educational theory has something important to offer in today's post-truth society ... One of the most rewarding things about Ford's book is that he clearly shows that we cannot leave problems of education, learning and pedagogy to schools of education.

Postdigital Science and Education

A remarkable achievement of Ford's book is its commitment, as mentioned earlier, to praxis, and its insistence on digging pathways from theory to its present and potential manifestations in lived practices.

Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

An unusually moving book, strangely inspiring and motivating even as it challenges us to excavate and overturn our understandings of how pedagogy and politics are interlinked. Ford's voice is persuasive and clear, ultimately inviting readers into an engaged reassessment of our fraught contemporary moment, where the classroom and the street are shown to be a Möbius strip.

Christopher Schaberg, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans, USA

As an academic, I have been waiting for a clear map of the collusion between liberal democracy and the marketplace of ideas. Combining a careful, nuanced reading of Lyotard with an innovative deployment of work by Jodi Dean and Lee Edelman, Ford shows nothing less than that the world can no longer afford to leave problems of pedagogy to schools of education. The relationship between politics and education emerges here as the central problem of the times. This book not only calls for intervention, but actually provides one.

Margret Grebowicz, Professor, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russian Federation