The flexible remit of this article should operate as an invitation for educational practitioners to consider and hopefully engage with a range of democratic and pliable pedagogical tactics, and ways in which they might be adapted across academic and curricular contexts. As such, the article does not present a specific and robustly complete set of educational practices, replete with pre-assigned instructions for an exact and replicative application. Rather, the brief tract should operate to incite and generate thoughts and ideas relating to new and alternative possibilities; and, in doing so, nudge new and insurgent ways of engaging with knowledge, our environments and students. Through the exploration of a specific range of ideas and concepts, (taken and adapted from the work of Roland Barthes and Guy Debord), namely the Death of the Author, the "dérive" and "détournement," the piece urges practitioners, to creatively confront the debilitating values and excesses of consumption, currently sweeping through the university, with a counter-surgency of radical tactics and alternatives.