This chapter advocates for curriculum scholarship as the embodiment of counter-conduct as the courage of truth. Truth-telling can create spaces within disciplinary institutions to generate new counter-politics to commonsense hegemonic discourses around neoliberal capitalist globalization to reveal techniques of power aimed at producing compliant populations of superfluous people. The chapter proposes re-thinking curriculum studies by connecting Foucault’s genealogical tactic with his analysis of parrhēsia, or “free-spokenness,” the embodiment of truth in one’s life, which resonates with Pinar’s post-Reconceptualization understanding of curriculum as complicated conversation through which to reconstruct the self and the social.
