Radheshwar, Jovian

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Jovian Radheshwar
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Political Science

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Urban orienteering
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Video
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We have become too reliant on navigation technologies which have obscured our relationship with our surroundings. While apps like Google Maps enable a high degree of knowledge about one’s neighborhood to be at one’s fingertips, they undermine exploration and radical immersion in one’s surroundings. Immersion is our natural way of existing in our spaces, prior to the rise of technological mediation. These days, the sport of “Orienteering” has formed to encourage fitness and engagement with nature and the outdoors, and some adventure in this style in the city, but we can also envision the significance of “Urban Orienteering,” where we focus on the city, its machinery, and its steel and glass, since these are now our home. Hip-hop, punk rock, skateboarding culture, parkour, …. and radical solidarities await us in the modern city, but we won’t locate these vital spaces and places and concepts in our mapped reality. Encouraging walking, public transit, and wandering, and regulating the place of cars and dangerous vehicles is the pathway to a new commons for a new era of radical interdependence of all life in a technologically-enframed consciousness. We hit SDG’s # 3,4,5,7,9,11,13 and 16.
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Freedom and impermanence - Recovering the liberal ideal from the metaphysics of modernity
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Digital Document
Abstract
Liberalism, the political philosophy created in the name of freedom, has, because of its complicity with structures of power organized for the production of permanence, in the history of the modern west, been transformed into an ideological template for the rationalization of moralized power politics, thus abrogating prior fundamental commitments to the freedom of humanity. From ancient to contemporary, with a special focus on the middle-modern milieu, this project traces through western concepts of liberty and their connection to structures of power and authority, both within the west and beyond it, as well, for example through the use of liberty as the handmaiden of power politics in the sphere of international relations and the politics of economic development. Following this historical and philosophical study of the phenomenology of freedom, encompassing in division one a study of the structure of the idea of freedom in liberal thought and in division two a consideration of its effects in recent histories of international relations, division two thereafter concludes with an alternative conceptualization of freedom inspired by a thorough-going ethical embrace of impermanence as a linchpin in a fundamental and ontological notion of being-in-the-world. A newly-enriched and imaginative liberalism offers a possibility for an ethical ground for politics organized for the greatest freedom of each person in a complex age. The onslaught of technological rationality has resulted in an enframed world of power underscored by the ubiquitous manipulation of technique and gesture, leaving the human-animal at the mercy of thoughtlessness in the service of technologically-manufactured permanences now merged with being. This complexity has become an illusory end-in-itself, obscuring our collective and individual experiences of being, and the contingency, and impermanence, of being. As such, we must, as beings whose existences are at issue, determine, through critical rethinking, how political thought should proceed in freeing beings for the possibility of evolution, survival, and the ongoing practice, of being free.
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