Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

Trump is the hyperventilating yellow canary in the coal mine reminding us all that social death is a looming threat. He is emblematic of a kind of hyper-masculinity that rules dead societies. He is the zombie with the blond wig holding a flamethrower behind his back. He is the perfect representation of the society of spectacle, with the perverse grin and the endless discourse of shock and humiliation.

Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.